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Your post history has a lot of defenses of conservative views but you call out that you are a liberal to try to bolster your conservative points. What liberal v
by Larrikin 6y ago
Your post history has a lot of defenses of conservative views but you call out that you are a liberal to try to bolster your conservative points. What liberal views do you believe in?
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoHere's a convenient primer for my beliefs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
- Larrikin 6y agoThanks for the specifics. Your post history and that generic wikipedia article help show your actual views
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- ThrowawayR2 6y agoA flippant response is all that a bad faith question merits. It may surprise you but I would encourage people to read my post history as well, all of it. Anybody not hopelessly mired in today's hyperpartisanship will see that I am criticizing the left from a liberal perspective.
- simonh 6y agoLiberalism and left wing aren’t the same thing, it’s not conservatism either. Take Milton Friedman for example. Right wing right? No, liberal. He believed in free markets and the power of free enterprise, but he also believed unions were important as an expression of individual freedom of association. He even advocated a negative income tax for low earners so he was a redistributionist. I still think that would be far better than a basic income, but I digress.
- kortilla 6y agoA big chunk of the Democrat party abandoned liberalism (I.e. against globalism, free speech, etc). So you end up in scenarios where “liberals” aren’t really Liberal and call the Liberal people right-wing or centrist.
- bra-ket 6y agothe far left squeezed out the middle.
- Veen 6y agoLiberals and even traditional leftists seem conservative (or fascist) to modern progressives, who mistakenly think of themselves as liberal.