Honestly, why would anyone be anything but a liberal?
I mean, it's the rule of law, no hereditary rights, all men being equal before the law, freedom of speech, freedom to disagree with authority and the government, you get your individual liberties and rights that the state cannot infringe upon, etc... Why would you not support all that? Why do people want to be slaves to authority?
Gabriel Roberts
>no hereditary rights >allows inheritance
Ummm sweetie thats not how it works.
Mason Mitchell
"Hereditary rights" as in inheriting a certain political office or special status. Referring to nobility and similar concepts.
Adam Ross
Not so sure about the mastubatery shit on the left, but that political spectrum is kind of neat.
Jackson Cook
Inheritance is modern hereditary rights.
Jack Cruz
What does that even mean?
Austin Reed
Money = Power right? So if I give money to my kids, I give them power the same way i'd give some power to my kid as a king
Luis Hill
Liberal economic systems, left to their own devices, end up as economies controlled by a couple big Monopolies
Samuel Thompson
[citation needed]
Liam Taylor
>Gilded age >Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism
Hunter Rogers
Thanks for proving me right.
Camden Gomez
Edgy and contrarian fucks
Kevin Baker
That question is a little loaded, because being a modern day liberal is completely different than being a classical liberal.
Lincoln Stewart
>that political spectrum on the right Pure ideology or deliberate misinformation?
Gavin Perez
Classical liberals are modern conservatives.
Xavier Powell
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that this is true when it comes to economics, but not so much when it comes to social issues or the importance of tradition and religion.
Asher Ortiz
considerable amount of difference between ensuring the economic security of your offspring and maintaining dynastic control over an institution
Aaron James
(not true, by the way)
Daniel Cook
A lot of the most glaring injustices of modern day global market capitalism are deliberately out of view of your neighborhoods. Its the suicide nets on the Foxconn sweatshops in Taiwan, the staggering rise in suicides among indian farmers saddled with debt burdens by the introduction of GMO seeds, and the IMF instituted "Special Economic Zones" in Africa exempt from labor laws where workers are subjected to noxious chemicals for a brutal hand to mouth existence, among many other examples.
Benjamin Gray
>so yeah so I'm non-gender so please call me Zi or Zis. >also punch nazis and whiteys at this point lmao they so fucking need it rit now >I think our society's most biggest problem is racism, facism and white men hating women Honestly I wonder the same thing. Why would anyone be anything but a liberal? like seriously dude
Noah Foster
>Rule of law Law absolves the necessity to value.
Build a fence outside; it protects the child; the child doesn't need to learn how to be safe; the child grows no defensive value. Remove the fence; the child is unprotected; the child needs to learn how to defend and be safe; the child learns defensive value.
>Rights and freedoms People always have preference over their own. Rights requires equality; equality doesn't exist.
You either can save a beloved family member or a random stranger from half way around the world. Who do you choose? Did the person you didn't choose have less of a right to live? Yes!
>Private property Literally can't be determined by any objective measure. It's appropriated directly from the Earth itself, and the people act as though they have some sort of objective claim over the territory that bugs crawl under, animals tread on, and birds fly over. What justifies your claim to your private property?
>economic freedom There are objective ways in which people have economically forced us into servitude. You can't call that freedom.
>self interest Greedy.. Yes.
>Competition Progress at whose expense? In the end, we've become a bitter people. There are record number suicides all over the modern world in the most developed countries.
Easton Powell
Mehmet pls
Carson Butler
modern libertarians*
Ryan Brown
>socialism and communism >equality of ends
Jeremiah Fisher
>Why do people want to be slaves to authority? Because most of Veeky Forums are NEETs that desire to be dommed, and being told 'you're part of something important and strong' is incredibly alluring for someone whose weak and holds no ideals.
Same thing for most religions I suppose.
Luis Powell
Yeah but why should I care?
Tyler Sanders
No. I don't want to become Sw*den.
David Bell
Yeah well classical liberalism that is. A lot of people today who identify themselves as liberal, particularly in the US, adhere to practically none of these values. Some are straight up Marxists. I see myself as a liberal, but when I call myself that in public I inmediatly feel the need to explain myself that i'm not "that" kind of liberal.