30 Dec 2020 3:12 pm
I would argue that George's sentiments are more a product of his Christian belief than liberal philosophy.
In fact the two are oddly contradictory...which you fail to see because you don't really have a good understanding of either despite pretending to be some expert on liberalism.
It was Christianity which preached a sort of 'Common brotherhood' of man. Jesus basically represented the meek and died to give equality to humans...the covenant with god was no longer unique to a particular nation such as the Jews.
Liberalism, in contrast, is founded on competition and rational self interest to promote meritocracy. While it is consistent with the Christian idea of man being a fallen creature...it was not consistent with an attitude of being your brother's keeper. Indeed many of the biggest liberal philosophers and leaders were quasi atheist...voltaire indeed suggested that there can be no god because that means he would have created Africans ' In his image'...while according to Voltaire Africans are far too stupid to have any connection to the divine.
The USA was unique in combining the 'Tolerance and inclusion' of Christian attitudes with liberalism...and at this point it kinda serves as a testament as to what disaster will happen to you if you invite a foreign collective with strong in group preference to partake in your 'Inclusive' society...when they feel no need whatsoever to reciprocate your courtesy.
Naturally they will take over your society and then they will destroy you. It was a very naive thing for us to do.