Liberalism and Its Promise to the People (part II )

Since the attainment of equality is the goal of the ideology of those on the left then those who seek to promote social policies that is in accordance to this goal is basically a moral person. This would lead us to the conclusion that those who seek to promote social policies that was not in accordance to this goal as being basically immoral. How else could it be if man was meant to be equals as created?


Power or the lack of it as perceived is the determinate of this inequality of persons. The powerful will exploit those with lesser power if power is in the wrong hands. The rich will exploit the poor. Big business will exploit the workers and cheat the consumer. Given the opportunity, the dominant religion will become the state religion leading to persecution of all of the others. Men will exploit women.


The powerful will benefit those with lesser power if power be in the right hands. And power in the right hands will be the hands of those who seek to promote equality. And with this, redistribution of assets from the rich to the poor will be the pronounced goal of the righteous. With this, regulation of big business will be the pronounced goal of the righteous. With this, strict separation of State and religious establishments and secularism will be the pronounced goal of the righteous. With this, the liberation of women will be the pronounced goal of the righteous.


Money or the lack of it as perceived is the means that men use to obtain and keep power per the ideology of the left. Money in the wrong hands of the powerful is the tool of the greedy. Profits is the goal of the greedy. Money in the right hands of the powerful is the tool of compassion. The welfare of the people is the goal of the compassionate.


In accordance to the ideology of the left it is big business who are the masters and it is those politicians on the right who are the servants of their masters. They be bought. They be owned. It is the politicians on the left who fight for the freedom of all in their quest for equality. And that can't be bought. It can't be owned.


It was the founding fathers who recognized the justice that be had in the equality of man. It was for this that a war for independence was fought and righteousness won out. It was Lincoln who saw the injustice of the inequality of the institution of slavery. It was against this that a war to free the slave was fought and righteousness won out. And it is the left that continues the fight of this righteous cause of equality that began over 200 years ago.


It is for the cause of the equality of man that a government be of the people. It is for the cause of equality that a government be by the people. It is for the cause of equality that a government be for the people. It is the essence of the meaning of good government.


It is a political ideology that gives real meaning to the right of Life. For there can be no better life than that of a life where men are equal. It is an political ideology that gives real meaning to the right of Liberty. For what freedom can match that freedom where one man does not have power over another? It is a political ideology that gives real meaning to the right of Pursuit of Happiness. For what is there to prevent happiness if the pursuit of it is unhindered by the powerful forces that are inherit in inequality?


It is the cause of equality that the left sees themselves as united with the people. It is for the cause of equality that the left identifies themselves as liberals in the same mode as the founding fathers. And it is seeing the slow but steady progress of this cause that some of the left will identify themselves as progressives.