Liberals DO support Walls, Globalism is Elitism, Love Your Neighbor First is Correct Nationalism

  Witness to Liberal - Think, Here are Some Reflections

 

Themes of this essay:

Liberals do want border walls, they are just afraid of being called racist. 

Globalism is actually elitism, and decidedly not open- mindedness. 

Liberal elitism leads to mean-spirited interpersonal interactions. 

Doing good really means starting with your neighbor - that is correct nationalism, and no, it is not racism.

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The nineteen seventies and eighties, Brookline Massachusetts - we were liberal and therefore enlightened. 

That meant there was a “system” that was somehow responsible for ills, and if we just bash the system, or cash in on it, we would be successful.

I began to understand that liberals are actually a small elite, but the process of realizing that was itself an act of separation from the liberal weltanshaung that was itself taboo. Being liberal was not only correct, it was such a basic assumption that questioning its assumptions was an act of apostasy unthinkable. But I am getting ahead of myself.

 

Brookline Mass boasts beautiful homes, with “no overnight parking” and only two hour parking during the day on its streets, even if you pay at a parking meter, you must move your car after two hours or get ticketed. Growing up, I thought this was just so the street cleaners could work at night so we would wake up to clean streets. I later understood that this was a systemic form of exclusion and snobbery. No parking means no hospitality  - no vagrants, no people in need who could rent an attic or basement in one of the stately homes in case they had fallen upon hard times. Fall upon hard times, you are out and forgotten. 

When liberals declare they are opposed to a border wall with Mexico, well, they do not live like this, they have their own walls of zoning laws, exclusive public schools that are decidedly not open to anyone else, high taxes. So I realized: anyone who is living in such walls has no right to oppose a border wall, so go ahead and build it.

 

Liberals who make their living as college professors, writers, artists, lawyers, politicians, activists, journalists, etc, are actually the finest capitalists. In the USA, they are benefiting mightily from enrichment via the very capitalism they claim to loathe.  As they are disconnected from the hard work of maintaining a business, they can express contempt for the capitalist system that has in fact enriched them. You can never ask: "what if you were a blue collar worker?", because that would never happen to them, and if it happened to any of their acquaintances, they would simply exclude them from the liberal social circle. 

Liberals are without borders, that is, a liberal’s community is the community of leftist intellectuals, and decidedly NOT the blue collar workers that make their lives livable by providing necessary services, and decidedly NOT any friends who could not make it in those circles.  The local factory is closing?  People out of work? They could care less. So "open minded", their very locals who are not part of that elite do not matter.

 

Should you ask, but hey, would you really like to be a college professor in a poor socialist country? A journalist where everyone is living in large cement blocks? A politician in a place where there is a limit on the hours per day of running water and electricity?  The answer, if they can imagine it, is that their artistic or professorial gifts are so great that the poor would support them. They will stay richer than anyone else anywhere they are.

 

I felt this also affected the sexual behavior of the people I grew up with. I was present to hear a story of a college girl cheating on her boyfriend, and how “middle class” he was to be jealous and hurt. Since she cheated on him by sleeping with a woman, that was cool, right? The other liberals were sneering along with her, in dismissive contempt for the pain he felt. When I countered, “but I can understand how he feels!” they simply froze. No retracting anything, no, “come to think of it it must be painful to be cheated on”. Nope, it’s all part of liberal elitism and the arrogant attitude that they will always win.

 

I then considered the ethic of sexual purity. Then I found true Christians. Then I reconnected with my Jewish roots.

 

President Donald Trump is a warm-hearted  moral capitalist. He reinvigorated New York city with his building projects and the subsequent jobs he created (liberals and leftists have contempt for “jobs”).  He hired women, black and Jews before it was fashionable to do so.  Prison reform should have been a liberal value, but liberals are too busy bashing “the system” to consider such a project. He accepts his daughter’s conversion to Judaism. He wants things to work.

 

The classic liberal was a good thing, I knew them in the 1970’s. Coming from prosperity, the classic liberal seeks to share the blessings of good housing and education with the poor. 

 

But the classic liberals did not protect themselves from the radical left. They did not hang on to the ethics of sexual purity, free speech, or true pluralism. 

So, it is President Trump who is the true inheritor of what used to be the classic liberal - wanting good for all, and starting with the members of your own community.