My understanding is that liberal used to have a far different meaning, way back a couple centuries ago.

My understanding is that a liberal education did not mean being cut and carved and served up for progressive consumption in the feast of socialism.

Like socialism? Where has it worked for more than a small and very diverse populace?

Like communism maybe? Yeah, that’s proven what can happen when socialistic flames get stoked to the point of needing to be strictly and completely controlled. Ends in smaller fires and far more exterminations of the uninformed, undesired, unwanted, uneducated, unwelcome, uninhibited and unimportant elements within its own existence. Even the originators get consumed and destroyed.

No one wants war really. Well, maybe a few do. But war comes nonetheless. It always has and always will no matter how much your well-fed, anti-capitalistic, weed-smoking, over-sheltered, tenured, and completely naïve Che-G-wearing prof may try to convince you otherwise. Has he or she been outside the great wall of learning within, say, the last lifetime?

Get educated, sure, but stay wise and vigilant. There’s a reason it’s called utopia.

Liberal causes are amazing to me. They can champion just about anything or anyone outside of what has stood for generations as success, common sense, good practice, moral fortitude, and natural tendencies but they steer ever clear of the old and mundane. Too boring. Too un-cool. Just time-tested and proven and know to actually work. Maybe, at the heart, just too damned white.

We have become a laboratory for the well-connected and also those who wish simply to tumble the apple cart to see the apples roll and have a giggle at someone else’s expense. Funny when it ain’t’ you.

If you stay true to your moral guidelines; if you practice some sort of uplifting and tolerant religion; if you seek and pursue and acquire true education and not indoctrination; if you believe in God and country; if you work for a living and work until you can afford to do more; if you then do more and marry the opposite-gendered person of your dreams; if you buy a house, start a family; if you work hard to improve yourself so as to help your family and your community; if you actively participate in elections and vote for policy rather than causes; if you plan for the future of your children and for your own retirement and ultimate demise; if you give a damn, really, about others and giving them a hand up and not a free ride at someone else’s expense; if you care about the future of this great country and it’s standing in the world; if you want a better tomorrow in all areas possible; if you still believe in the American dream…

Well then get out and get a job and work and sweat and have some kids (not one child as a project). Go to church once in a while and believe in a power higher than yourself. Worry over some bills that you and not someone else is responsible for paying. Turn to and face and even embrace the real world and, well, you might just find it very, very hard to be a liberal.

Churchill said it best and it still rings ever true. Eh? Look it up.

What is the world like in your utopia? Did you ever think it through to the end? Did you start with an objective and lay out a strategy or did someone just convince you to blindly follow a cause…or perhaps just its leader since that requires far less research and intelligence.

Get wise and get real.

Liberalism, as defined today, simply means doing your best to destroy the old and failing miserably when constructing its replacement if you even happen to have an idea of what that may look like in your utopia.

All of the best and brightest socialists and communists knew it and maybe you should wise up, study their histories beyond their idealistic phases (these would be the phases your profs highlight with no mention of what happened later) and you might too become enlightened. I don’t think there were many happy endings.

Life’s too hard to be so naïve. Wise up.

Life’s too short to be so stupid. Wise up.