I have no doubt liberals love America. That is, so long as you conceive of “America” as tantamount to government. But if you think of America as a nation and culture informed by the most revered principles of its Founders, then all bets are off.

It occurs to me the case that liberals—or, to be more generous, genuine leftists—truly hate America can, indeed, be made with intellectual honesty.

The very first unalienable right heralded by our Declaration of Independence is the right to life. Instead of cherishing and protecting this most basic right, the Left tenaciously promotes its culture of death. The most obvious case is abortion. But lefties have devised other ways to subvert our rights to life. They love to coddle violent criminals, championing them as class victims, true cult heroes of the perennial “struggle” against the “system”. Aided and abetted by a colluding liberal judiciary, leftists advocate tirelessly for overturned convictions, prisoner furloughs and early paroles. In many of these cases, the perps end up being released back into society where they rob, murder and rape again. Willie Horton was hardly an isolated case. American citizens die—lose their right to life—as a consequence of this liberal moralistic fetish.

The purpose of a standing army is to protect the well-being and lives of the citizenry. Yet the Left makes no effort to conceal its utter contempt for our military. So in that negative sense, once again, liberal orthodoxy promotes an anti-life agenda.

Fortunately, the pseudo-science known as Eugenics is no longer in vogue as it once was. It’s instructive, however, that Margret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, was the leading advocate for eugenics in her day. A somewhat more contemporary example would be Jacques Cousteau, the enlightened humanist, who lamented the fact the Earth was burdened by too many “useless eaters”. The spirit, if not a specific directive, of the eugenics movement was embodied in Adolph Hitler who set about to solve the “Jewish problem” with appalling and ghastly efficiency.

While Hitler, Sanger and Cousteau have moved on, Eugenics’ ugly little step-child, Euthanasia, it still with us. And still promoted with zeal by the Left. Does anyone believe Doctor Death, Jack Kevorkian, was a registered Republican?

And now our president wants to force upon us his ObamaCare which ultimately means that a lot of terminally-ill and elderly people will die sooner because some bureaucratic twit in Washington deems any extraordinary care as “cost-prohibitive”.

Now, how about liberty? There’s not enough space to chronicle all the leftist assaults on our freedoms. But here’s a start: unprecedented government intrusion into what used to be a free market, endless federal agencies, departments, committees, “czars”, executive orders, rules and regulations to micro-manage every facet of American life (such as the State setting the thermostat in your private home or compelling you to purchase bio-hazardous light bulbs because they’re more efficient or forcing you to drive tinfoil death traps in order to satisfy dubious CAFE standards), more burdensome taxes in one form or another, the coming mandates to require everyone to buy “public” health insurance, fines and penalties for one’s “carbon footprint” (Orwellian newspeak for a specious notion), Card Check which sanctions union thuggery, the absurd and ironically-named Fairness Doctrine, watch-lists from Homeland Security targeting half the populace (for being conservative), proposals to censure and control the Internet, denying poor people school choice through vouchers (while the elite send their kids to the best private schools), disarming citizens by eliminating the inventory of bullets available for purchase—I could go on.

The pursuit of happiness is really an extension of and corollary to the first two enumerated rights we’re supposed to be guaranteed. In a fallen world, the best society possible is one where free individuals, tempered by morality, enjoy the liberty to pursue their own self-interests. On the face of it, that may sound “selfish”. But society at large benefits from the unfettered transactions, entrepreneurial genius and creative spirit of moral people trying to make the most of their God-given potential as human beings. To wit: the singular achievement known in human history as the "American experiment", the beacon of American exceptionalism shining its light to the rest of the world. Ayn Rand, perhaps arguably, went too far with her philosophy of objectivism, but she was on to something.

Of course, for liberals the real coup de grâce is that these unalienable rights are said, by our Founding Fathers, to be bestowed by none other than God. And, just to nettle the lefties, the Christian God, at that. (Too bad it wasn’t Allah who bequeathed the colonists these rights—he’s the one deity the politically-correct liberals seem to be squeamish about criticizing.) No wonder the Left hates life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—and America.