When Did the Liberal Agenda Become Non-Liberal?

 Cross posted at Grizzly Geoundswell

Cross posted on Political Grind

 The idea for this post came to me the other day as I was driving out to the work-site. I was driving with a coworker so this was a rare time when I was listening to music on the radio. When I drive alone I listen to talk radio and a little sports radio, but when other people are in the car I go with music. It’s much easier that way, most people in manufacturing do not share my political views, and I’d rather not get in an argument with people I have to work with on a daily basis.  Anyway, as we were driving, that old song came on the radio by the Five Man Electrical Band, “Signs”. First, I have to confess I never knew who did this song, I googled it. But that’s neither here nor there. This song, like most from the era is a typical liberal song. The verse that always gets me is this one:

And the sign said “anybody caught trespassing would be shot on sight”
So I jumped on the fence and yelled at the house, “hey what gives you the right?”
To put up a fence to keep me out, or to keep mother nature in
If God was here he’d tell you to your face: “man you’re some kind of sinner!”

 As if man isn’t supposed to own property. What gives you the right, is what the singer asks. He equates a person even owning property as being a sinner because of it.

 The job I was working on was about an hour drive from my shop, so I had allot of time to ponder this song, and others like it. While doing this I thought of an interesting little point that I thought I would write about.

 I believe that the liberal movement as we know it began with the hippies in the sixties. In my opinion they were the first liberal movement to really gain any momentum. The whole concept of free love, free drugs, free whatever made you feel good started here. This is where the mentality of “there are no consequences for your actions” originated. Who can tell someone what is right and what is wrong? If it feels good, it is right. If something feels good to a specific person, it is right for that person. If something feels bad to that person, it is bad for that person. Nobody, in a liberal’s mind, can tell another person what they should or shouldn’t do. Many, many songs from this era are about this same idea. This Liberal ideology.

 But something happened along the way. The rules of liberalism have seemingly changed. The hippies eventually grew up and became mothers and fathers, workers and businessmen. Some of them even became politicians eager to spread their liberal ideology to the mainstream. As I said, something changed in them.

 Hippies always believed that they were correct for their no limits mindset. If you thought that people should have boundaries then you were wrong in their eyes. You were out to suppress,repress, control, and manipulate those that disagreed with you.They began to realize that if they got into a position of power they could then manipulate public opinion towards their beliefs.

 However once they began to accumulate power, they decided that they should the begin asserting their beliefs on others. In effect they began to do others what they so despised, telling other people what is good and bad. They just looked at it from the opposite angle. Because they believed that they were always correct, it was their duty to enlighten the rest of us.

 Along the way thought the liberal agenda has actually started to infringe upon the rights that the American people have. The liberals have actually become non-liberals on many issues. I find it ironic that the no consequences crowd who believe in anything goes is the same crowd that is in the process of banning smoking all over the country in public places. They are telling private businesses that they can’t allow smoking, this is in direct conflict to their original premise. They are telling restaurants how they can cook their food (trans fats), they tell the people they must buckle up. Liberals are banning free speech through political correctness, you are not allowed to say anything that might offend anyone at anytime. They are telling people that they need to drive less to save the planet. This is opposite ideology to what the liberals supposedly believed in.

 The liberal movement has somehow morphed from anything goes, to anything we say goes goes. They went from being against anyone telling them how they should live their lives, to telling everyone how they should live their lives.

 In essence they have gone from fighting the man to being the man. Funny what power will do to you, huh?

 All this from listening to a song on the way to work.