Are We Entering a Post-Liberal Era?
By Michael Brown Published on December 16, 2016
https://stream.org/entering-post-liberal-era/
In his December 9th article "Has the Trumpian Revolution Begun?," long-time conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan dared to say that, with the Trump presidency,
"we may be entering a post-liberal era." Could it be true?
According to Buchanan,
"Liberalism appears to be a dying faith. America's elites may still preach their trinity of values: diversity, democracy equality. But the
majorities in America and Europe are demanding that the borders be secured and Third World immigrants kept out."
But it is
not just political liberalism whose demise Buchanan is tentatively predicting. He also suggests that
moral and cultural liberalism could be on the wane as well. He writes, "As Hegel taught, in the dialectic of history the thesis calls into existence the antithesis. What we seem to be seeing is
a rejection, and
a counterreformation against the views and values that came out of the social and political revolutions of the 1960s."
What?
A counterreformation against the radical cultural shifts and moral changes that came out of the counterculture revolution of the 1960s, a revolution that birthed radical feminism, gay activism, and sexual anarchy?
For years we have been told that liberalism had triumphed and that conservative morality was a thing of the past.
For years we have been told that "progressivism" owned the future and that traditionalists were a dying breed, soon to be replaced irrevocably by a younger, enlightened generation....
...Inevitably, at some point,
the radical leftist agenda has always been doomed to fail, and there is now a push back against the left's
overplaying of its hand, which includes:
forcing transgender activism into our children's schools; declaring that
phrases like "ladies and gentlemen" are transphobic and sexist; students at the University of Pennsylvania replacing "a hallway portrait of William Shakespeare with a photograph of lesbian activist Audre Lorde" — apparently Shakespeare was just too white and too male; and Oregon State University offering a course on "African American resistance to Trump."
These radical agendas can only go so far before the people begin to push back, and that it is
partly what happened with the recent elections.
Enough with
the divisive ways of identity politics. Enough with the
attack on traditional American values. Enough with the
assault on our religious freedoms.
Enough....