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Great response, the historical Puritan context is something I hadn't considered before. I mention in another response that I'm looking for a description or mod
by shredprez 8y ago
Great response, the historical Puritan context is something I hadn't considered before.
I mention in another response that I'm looking for a description or model that isn't reactionary, but your reply makes me wonder if that's even possible. Is Liberalism more of an emergent, regulating social phenomena than a proper political alignment?
- debacle 8y agoWhat do you mean a model that isn't reactionary? Liberalism I think has two camps: 1. We are forcing people to do the wrong things and should do that less. 2. We shouldn't force people to do anything (libertarianism). The problem with the latter is obviously that libertarians tend to be ignorant of the social contract, but the problem with the former is that lots of those type of liberals stop being liberals when they're the ones in power.