As Herr Nietzsche would have it: And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
If all politics are methods for controlling people with ideas and liberalism is fully within the realm of politics, then liberalism is a method for imposing its own progressive brand of control over others.
* Human rights are the core of liberalism;
* Human rights are a precondition for progress and stability;
* Human rights can only be secured by true democracy;
* True democracy is inseparable from political and civil liberty
Liberalismis a child of the White Western European Enlightenment age. Itsdevelopers and proponents generally remain White Western Europeans whohappen to be liberals.
By making liberal policy into law, imposing intervention onnon-conforming lands abroad, and going to war to impose liberaldemocracy in Korea, Vietnam, the former Yugoslavia, Iraq andAfghanistan, liberals aggressively assert the supremacy of theirideology over that of others.
“One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has beena crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarminglyilliberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberalstate deals with its anti-liberal enemies. This, surely, is the acidtest of any liberal creed. Anyone can be tolerant of those who aretolerant. A community of the broad-minded is a pleasant place, butrequires no great moral effort. The key issue is how the liberal statecopes with those who reject its ideological framework. It isfashionable today to speak of being open to the “Other”. But what ifthe Other detests your openness as much as it does your lapdancingclubs?”