Extreme Liberalism Is a Threat to Liberty

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Liberty is a liberal notion, and moderate forces must prevail in tempering its intensity. All too often humans are succumbed by intemperate passions that unduly influence perceptions and actions. The extremes of liberalism manifest themselves in two distinct ways. One extreme is either too liberal and the other is not liberal enough. The former is excessively liberal in matters of perceptions and conceptions, and the latter is excessively deficient in the same respects. A majority of human beings are moderately liberal in nature, and have a desire to acquire more freedom, security, and happiness in a temperate manner. Extremes of liberalism are far from the moderate stream of normal behavior. Individuals either reduce their liberalness or increase it. For those who are too liberal, they seem to want to do all things for all people, and expect others to follow in that line of thinking. There are also those who are not liberal enough, and exhibit the same stubbornness, but are narrow-minded individuals with parochial views. Both extremes are righteously indignant to each other and the more moderate sentiments. Given that the extremes are really minority sentiments, they should not be as influential as they currently are. It seems as if American citizens, the vast majority moderately liberal in nature, according to the present description, should not be torn apart by the radical extremes that hamper domestic tranquility.

No matter what the party label, in this country’s political history, the fundamental question vexing every citizen is how much power we grant the Federal government, and what is the extent of it, according to the United States Constitution. Both the major political party’s, in recent history, have come down on either side of this fundamental question perpetually facing American citizens. The Democratic Party has the notion that the Federal government should do more, for more, with more, and the Republican Party is the exact opposite. The problem with the two party system is that there are extreme forces at work in each.  The base in each party are really extremes that exert too much influence given its minority representation.  It is a shame that only 60% of American citizens vote, given the close nature of political contests.  The other 40% could push the slim majorities in either way, giving more legitimacy to our national voice.  The extremes need to be banished from the two major party's, and forced to become independent entities, with their own structure, and their own candidates, and not continue to infect the more moderate forces by hiding in the two party's.  The influential extremes of liberalism must be diminshed in order to move this country forward in the 21st century.