It is always assumed by Liberals that liberalism is a lifelong affliction. I do not believe that people are so fixed in their ideology or political views that they cannot eventually change their minds. In fact ,most of the people I know share a similar journey from early liberalism to eventual conservatism. Admittedly this is credited to natural aging and the accumulation of experience in matters of the world.
I choose to believe a lot of it is the accelerated disclosure of the flawed premises found in liberal theory. People quickly ascertain that no nation has enough wealth to make everyone wealthy.If everyone is at leisure. who will do the labor ? If we take from the rich and give it to the poor, did the rich deserve it and did the poor earn it ?
Why is a committee of politicians more justified in deciding our lives than we are?
Thus , people see from simple logic that liberal remedies are nothing more than fairytales.
In the age of light speed communications this process shapes our opinions more quickly than before and liberalism is moving toward the life span of a lacewing nymph.
Example; Last week in the span of 10 minutes ,roughly, I read the following stories.
Sen. T. Kennedy D- Mass. to introduce a bill this session for the establishment of Universal Health Care for all residents.
The British National Health Service announced this week that attempts to resolve the disparity between revenues and cost has failed again, and warned that Parliment has only a year or less to cure this chronic problem or the NHS will be bankrupt.
As I said , the lifespan of a …….
