RE: The latest liberal crusade

Steve Brenneis opines:

Once again, the left has co-opted a phrase in the English language and perverted it to mean almost the opposite of its original intent.

The term social contract was used in early libertarian and natural law debates among such folks as Locke, Hobbes, and Strauss. The phrase meant an explicit agreement by people in a society allowing themselves to be governed by others. It was meant as a limiting principle on what a government could and could not do. It was one of the foundational principles of the US Constitution.

Liberals have perverted the term to mean an implicit obligation of collectivism. Liberals use the essential positive meaning of the term to browbeat the masses into accepting something evil, redistributionism, as a positive. It is pure Orwellian double-speak.