"At the time of the founding, the Founding Fathers were considered classically Liberal. Remember, at that point, most of the world was ruled by Monarchs or warlords. The Constitution was a liberal document, rights of the individual were paramount & government was there to do a few things to further freedom & liberty. Primary function to protect American Citizens from enemies foreign & domestic.
If the founders were alive today, they would be considered conservative, maintain the Constitutional Republic. Liberals today are for a form of Monarchy, an all powerful state directing where private assets go through a huge bureaucracy regulating & taxing everything & everyone.
The death of the American Republic began in 1913 with passage of the Income Tax & Federal Reserve Bank designed to prop up deficit spending with a fiat currency. Also, per typical, Congress knowingly lied to the American Citizens saying the Income Tax would remain at 1%. What de Toc Tocqueville warned of, tax system would be used by the political class to bribe the voters for their vote & ultimately destroy democracy.
For the past 5 decades or so, the American public education system has been a willing co-conspirator in this con. History, Civics, Economic Systems, political free science, & reasoning are no longer taught leaving a great deal of the population open to manipulation by America's increasing Marxist political class. Too many Republican Establishment types also fall into this bucket with the near entirety of the Democrat Party."
"Not liberals in the modern sense, but certainly in the original Enlightenment sense. Modern liberalism in the context of American politics means almost precisely the opposite of what it meant in 1776. Liberalism is essential about small, unobtrusive, limited government, with powers strictly defined in a constitution, low taxes, private property rights, free market capitalism, and a protection of religious liberty from government authority. The founders were explicitly opposed to any political ideology that could in any way be thought of as Marxist in the modern sense. They were opposed to power being arbitrarily imposed from a centralized national government as we just saw exercised by Joe Biden. Our modern government is what the founders tried most desperately to prevent us from ever becoming."
"With a couple of exceptions, such as atheist Thomas Paine, the founding fathers were small “r” republicans. Since they furiously rejected the rule by federal judges and bureaucrats liberals call democracy, the Founding Fathers were less liberal than I am.
In fact, the Founding Father started the American Revolution to revolt against what liberals now call democracy. Remember the Boston Tea Party? It was a revolt against the political authority granted to an early corporation called the British East Indian Company. This corporation was so powerful that they were able to dictate to American colonists that they would only buy tea from this bunch, and American commerce would largely have to cease to protect this corporation’s profits. So, liberalism, or government owned by corporations, was the proximate cause of the American Revolution.
Two prominent early liberals are John Adams, whose remembered accomplishment was to take away the freedom of Americans to criticize their own government (what liberals call “hate crimes” today, which are anything hated by liberals), called the Alien and Sedition Act. Honest Abe Lincoln was the other. During the Mexican War, which was a contest to see whether the US or Mexico would be regional hegemon, Honest Abe sided with Mexico. Had Honest Abe and his liberal comrades gotten their way, no doubt America would’ve been limited to its original thirteen colonies, being surrounded by Mexico on the south and west, and Britain to the north."
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