The bottom line about modern liberalism is their total addiction to fixing problems with huge sweeping programs that end up costing titanic amounts of other people’s money and then fail miserably on the same huge scale. For example, FDR’s New Deal, set up in 1933, not only made the Depression go on longer than it needed to, but laid the groundwork for government-run, socialist-style nanny-statism. Indeed, the New Deal worked hard to collectivize American companies, through the use of a stacked deck in the SCOTUS, to try to force the economy out of the Depression. In violation of every economic principle, it predictably failed and in a large manner. The New Deal, with a few minutes of research and reading, can be exposed for liberal fascism and abject socialism. The New Deal turned out to be a Raw Deal for America as by 1938, the USA was in poorer shape than in 1933! Indeed, FDR’s Raw Deal turned out laborious economic programs that addressed everything under the sun but the fundamental responses to a sputtering economy like: ending internal and external tariffs, easing credit to consumers, lowering taxes across the board, and waiting for the free market to equalize the situation. This was proven as a viable measure when Bush implemented such policies after 11 September 2001, and the economy picked up, much to the dismay of the liberals. Liberal economic policies are akin to building a rocket and then loading it down with extraneous weight and powering it with the motor from a hair dryer!
Another point of modern liberalism is their attempt to grab the moral high ground and their claim that they govern better than the Republicans do. Maybe if we count how they regulate and tax and spend, then yes, they govern better. But in reality, learning from FDR, liberals are using FDR and Tammany Hall style tactics of constituent favors, services, and plain old style communist centralized planning, liberals came to dominate the Northeast and Upper Midwest. Once glance at Detroit, Flint, Camden, Cleveland, Buffalo, and other cities that once had striving industries, should be proof enough that liberals like Carter, Clinton, Obama, should never rise higher than the position of dogcatcher. Liberals in the 60’s and afterwards crowed about a monopoly on looking out for the average joe and jane with social compassion and social justice (welfarism and a redistribution of other people’s money) while making the GOP (who took it lying down) look like a bunch of gun-toting rednecks, theocratic loons, and serial racists. And the sheep fell for it all. They fell for it so much so that in thirty YEARS plus of NO new ideas, NO real accomplishments, and NO new political doctrine, liberalism still lumbers along, draining resources, stifling the economy, and producing Marxist drones like Obama, Hillary, Pelosi and criminals like Bill Clinton, MILCON Diane Feinstein, Land Deal Reid, Freezer Money Jefferson, ABSCAM Murtha, etc, etc.