It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.
I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.
And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms - often putting their lives on the line - called themselves liberals.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.
Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.