The paradox of American liberalism is that it could exist until the United States was completely free.
About this writes the publication “Newsweek”.
The American liberal idea was to free the nation from obligations and responsibilities to each other, from obligations to past and future generations. Liberalism proclaimed the Americans masters of nature, allowing not only to use its benefits, but also to abuse them. In the end, as the newspaper writes, liberalism turned citizens into consumers.
“Liberal instruments that were designed to free us from interpersonal obligations — the state and the market — seem to be no longer under our control. Survey after survey, films and songs of Americans show concern and fear that they no longer feel free. Rather, they feel as if they are subordinate to the impersonal forces of our liberation: the state, the market and technology, ”the article says.
Moreover, the system that arose to overthrow the old aristocracy gave rise to a powerful new elite. And this elite does not disdain those family values and traditions from which liberalism freed American society. As traditional institutions collapse, these elites “thrive in a limitless world of limitless choice.”
“Today’s elites gather in a narrow strip of the country’s rich and expensive urban areas, no longer live close to the working class,” continues Newsweek. “Meanwhile, local institutions were corroded and destroyed, which had a particularly negative impact on the prospects for a decent life among the working classes of all races, which faced a deterioration in economic and social stability and a massive increase in mortality.”
The elites are quietly convincing people that “everything is fine,” because GDP and stock markets are growing. Meanwhile, the “invisible” Americans are “perishing in droves” in a world of despair and hopelessness.