God-given rights. Where do they really come from?

Germany, Japan and S. Korea are some of the exceptional examples where US' brand of liberalism was successfully adopted. All three didn't have much of a choice after the respective wars that left each in near ruins. With nationalism on the "rise"(in quotes because it never really went anywhere) around the globe, or perhaps more accurately, with liberal democracy on the down slope, it'd be willful ignorance to fail to ask these questions.

Carlin would fit in the "libertarian" party. Great he was a comedian and not a politician. R.I.P.