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[[File:FDRoosevelt by Perskie.png|thumbnail|right|200px|[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] ]]

[[File:FDRoosevelt by Perskie.png|thumbnail|right|200px|[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] ]]

'''American liberalism''' is a political ideology that dominates the [[Democratic Party]]. Its heroes include [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], and [[Martin Luther King]].

'''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]]

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.  

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.