Liberalism has dwindled as a political force over the last one hundred years, partly because it won many of its battles.
The fall of the Berlin wall, free trade, free speech through the Internet, lower marginal taxes.
But it has not offered solutions to the growth of organized crime, the loss of moral and family values, the destruction of the middle class, the deterioration of education, terrorism, the growth of mediocrity rather than meritocracy.
Conservatism has occupied the political space left by the liberals.
Liberalism has restricted itself in denouncing encroachments of freedom with more of the same arguments used 200 hundred years ago.
Rather than belabor what went wrong, I would like to propose a future agenda, which by itself will give an idea of what went wrong.
Liberalism greatest mission is to point to society not the encroachments on liberty, but to point out the growth of social free riding, call it kleptocracy, social parasitism, organized crime, government.
In every society, some members will take upon themselves an evolutionary strategy of living off the work of others.

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