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Studies done through the 1980s by Tom W. Smith at the National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago found clear evidence of a change in American values in the period from 1945 to the early 1980s.
Smith noted that for about 30 years following World War II, American society saw a significant movement from conservative towards liberal values. This was manifested as widespread public support for:- equal rights
- individual choice (outside of the economic realm)
- support for increased government control regulation
- expansion of social welfare
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Equal rights and individual choice for those people in control of government and social welfare programs. That about sums up liberal ideology, and reveals its flaw. You can't expand the powers of the government and increase personal liberty at the same time. Read the 9th Amendment to the Constitution, it basically says that the only rights you don't have are the ones the government restricts by law. Therefore new laws, taxes, and social programs can only reduce personal liberty. Is this really what we want to happen over the next twenty or thirty years?