JoyV wrote:
You wrote, "Liberals are "utilitarian" in thinking that social, economic and governmental policy should be skewed toward the advantge of the largest number of people,..." But to try to make this ideal come to pass by mandating one person's or group's idea of what constitutes "advantage" is NOT working toward freedom but toward totalitarianism. Even when it is for "there own good", compulsive laws do not expand freedom.
Again, you wrote, "This does not mean that liberals wish to destroy rich people or capitalism, but that these people, and this economic system, must be controlled to the extent that they serve We the People". Controlling a certain group of people to benefit others is NOT "freedom to all". This idea is counter to the constitution's words, "Life, liberty, and property"; and the Declaration of Independence's words, "Life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
The liberal ideals are laudable. But there willingness to compel everyone into their vision of utopia is anti American and anti US Constitution. Dissent and disagreement are hallmarks of a free society.
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Not toward totalitarianism but toward democracy. Capitalism and democracy are incompatible and at war with each other like forever. Some times democracy surges such as around the turn of the 20th century and again from 1933 to 1973 but capitalism has surged since them eroding the democratic gains made from 33 to 73