Liberalism has three distinct cores: the moral core, the political core and the economic core. It is the moral core, more than anything else, that keeps these biases alive and well. The moral core contains "an affirmation of basic values and rights attributable to the 'nature' of

These groups all believe in one thing, the primacy of individuals. They still believe in the cores of liberalism and the principles upon which it was founded, especially the principle of popular sovereignty, it is just that they also believe that somewhere along the way these principles were skewed by people who knew that eventually these minority interest groups would one day speak up for equal freedoms and civil liberties. To prevent anything from coming of it, these people changed liberalism to suit them and to keep the others in a state of social inferiority. The reformists feel that "individuals make the political society in which we live, and they can change it. . . society consists of a maze of overlapping, cooperating, or conflicting wills and units-both individuals and groups-participating in the political system" (pg. 7). Each of these groups, the ones that fight for gender equity, racial equity and class equity, still believe in the fundamentals of liberalism. They just want to make sure that what works in theory also works in fact. And that is why there is a hope for liberalism. As long as the individual believes in the society in which he is present and is willing to use those beliefs to make it better, there is always hope. Liberalism appears to not be able to solve the biases it has let loose upon the public now, but as one President said, "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be fixed by what is right with America."

As people have become more and more followed utilitarian belief system put forth by Jeremy Bentham, some people in power have realized that they can even further maximize their pleasure in the form of profit, but taking certain advantages of the people who work for them. Lower wages, coupled with a forced increased productivity have created classes in American society. There are the entrepreneurs, who exploit the workers, and those that work for them. Liberalism is supposed to be the theory of the middle class, but it has found itself to be most advantageous to the upper classes who have manipulated it to give themselves an even larger portion of America's wealth. Those at the bottom favor the true application of individual rights and enlightened self interest, the belief that "enjoying smaller pleasures in order to maintain a fairly pleasurable existence. . . shows enlightenment" (pg. 33) and that "if [the p

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