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'''American liberalism''' is a political ideology that dominates the [[Democratic Party]]. Its heroes include [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], and [[Martin Luther King]]. See also: [[Liberal]] and [[Liberalism]]
 
'''American liberalism''' is a political ideology that dominates the [[Democratic Party]]. Its heroes include [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], and [[Martin Luther King]]. See also: [[Liberal]] and [[Liberalism]]
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Historian [[Arnold Toynbee]] notes of the three dozen or so human civilizations which have appeared in recorded history, only a half dozen remain. His ''[[A Study of History]]'' traces the birth, growth, breakdown and disintegration common to all defunct civilizations,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aRmTMxO61m4C&pg=PA373&lpg=PA373&dq=Alternative+Ways+of+Behaviour,+Feeling,+and+Life&source=bl&ots=TBCgbp-VSI&sig=gtlWottHJaGCzlzf634ILzR-j7s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWqOWb2ejTAhUV9mMKHSpjBpoQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=Alternative%20Ways%20of%20Behaviour%2C%20Feeling%2C%20and%20Life&f=false]</ref> and speculates as to what phase living civilizations that remain are passing through.<ref>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/MurProl.php </ref> Modern American liberalism exhibits much of the characteristics of a civilization in its final phase,<ref>http://nypost.com/2013/11/02/when-did-white-trash-become-normal/ </ref> unable to perform the creative acts which gave rise to it, and seeking to normalize deviance in its final breakdown stages before it disappears into extinction or merges with and is swallowed whole by competing civilizations.  
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Historian [[Arnold Toynbee]] notes of the three dozen or so human civilizations which have appeared in recorded history, only a half dozen remain. His ''[[A Study of History]]'' traces the birth, growth, breakdown and disintegration common to all defunct civilizations,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aRmTMxO61m4C&pg=PA373&lpg=PA373&dq=Alternative+Ways+of+Behaviour,+Feeling,+and+Life&source=bl&ots=TBCgbp-VSI&sig=gtlWottHJaGCzlzf634ILzR-j7s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWqOWb2ejTAhUV9mMKHSpjBpoQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=Alternative%20Ways%20of%20Behaviour%2C%20Feeling%2C%20and%20Life&f=false]</ref> and speculates as to what phase living civilizations that remain are passing through.<ref>http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/MurProl.php</ref> Modern American liberalism exhibits much of the characteristics of a civilization in its final phase,<ref>http://nypost.com/2013/11/02/when-did-white-trash-become-normal/</ref> unable to perform the creative acts which gave rise to it, and seeking to normalize deviance in its final breakdown stages before it disappears into extinction or merges with and is swallowed whole by competing civilizations.  
    
The [[Cloward-Pivan strategy]], for example, is a policy devoid of any creative impulses or processes and intended to breakdown and destroy existing societial norms and institutions.  
 
The [[Cloward-Pivan strategy]], for example, is a policy devoid of any creative impulses or processes and intended to breakdown and destroy existing societial norms and institutions.  
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Because she lacked support for her claim and was a vocal critic of [[Donald Trump]], Trump mocked her during the 2016 presidential election and gave her the moniker "[[Pocahontas]]".<<ref>[https://townhall.com/columnists/howiecarr/2017/05/01/why-trump-is-still-calling-sen-warren-pocahontas-n2320732 Why Trump Is Still Calling Sen. Warren 'Pocahontas'], Townhall, 2017</ref> ]]
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Because she lacked support for her claim and was a vocal critic of [[Donald Trump]], Trump mocked her during the 2016 presidential election and gave her the moniker "[[Pocahontas]]".<ref>[https://townhall.com/columnists/howiecarr/2017/05/01/why-trump-is-still-calling-sen-warren-pocahontas-n2320732 Why Trump Is Still Calling Sen. Warren 'Pocahontas'], Townhall, 2017</ref> ]]
 
In 2017, the ''Financial Times'' declared about American liberalism:
 
In 2017, the ''Financial Times'' declared about American liberalism:
 
{{Cquote|...as Democrats struggle to reinvent themselves in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, their party remains captured by a toxic mix of [[identity politics]] and corporate interests. The establishment wing is still convinced that racism and [[misogyny]], not economic populism, sank Mrs Clinton, and that wooing big corporate donors is still the way to victory in the next election.
 
{{Cquote|...as Democrats struggle to reinvent themselves in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, their party remains captured by a toxic mix of [[identity politics]] and corporate interests. The establishment wing is still convinced that racism and [[misogyny]], not economic populism, sank Mrs Clinton, and that wooing big corporate donors is still the way to victory in the next election.
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