From a review of the book highlighted below:
Today, liberals no longer espouse the liberal philosophy of the 18th century -- libertarians do (as much as possible.) Liberals have sought to maximize social engineering, creating a massive government bureaucracy dedicated to governing the lives of American citizens supposedly for their own good. One of their heroes, Walter Lippmann even adressed the idea that social engineering needed to be extended into procreation in that actions needed to be taken to assure the "best" Americans breed while undesirables do not. Gee, that sounds like Hitler and the SS, but I digress. This is not liberalism -- it is tyranny. Or so the author argues (correctly.) Inherent in this philosophy is the concept that government by definition is the enemy of liberty since to govern means to restrict individual liberty for the collective good -- like requiring all people to drive on the right side of the road. An even better and more contemporary example is political correctness, probably the most heinious and devastating attack on individual liberty in the U.S. since its formation.
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