It is clear that welfare and the concerns that led to the growth of government in the 50s and 60s are ineffectual if not futile attempts at coercing progress. The income disparity in the United States has grown since implementation of the Great Society. Business will flourish, unemployment will decline and inefficiencies in the economy will be weeded out for good. Best of all, private charities and private concerns for the welfare of the poor will more than amply allow for society to progress at a far more civil and prosperous state. And most importantly, we as citizens will finally savor freedom unhindered by corruption and abuses of power.
Liberalism is the belief in liberty and freedom.
If you believe that you are responsible for your own actions and the inalienable rights of man, then you are a liberal in the purest definition of the word. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is a basic tenet we all want to see become a reality, rather than a philosophical ideal. The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without howing how it happened.