Liberalism is a wide tent. John Locke thought differently from Adam Smith [...] Liberals argue fiercely with one another. Many of the important practitioners of liberalism [...] did not commit themselves to foundational philosophical commitments of any kind

A liberal might think that Ronald Reagan was a great president and that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an abomination; a liberal might think that Roosevelt was a great president and that Reagan was an abomination. Liberals have divergent views about negative liberty (the right to be free from government intrusion) and positive liberty (the right to receive government help)

Liberals like laughter. They are anti-anti-laughter.

It's like a motherlode holy shit

MLK on the collage

sigh post the quote:

"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it." -Vladimir Lenin

Liberals abhor the idea that life or politics is a conflict between friends and enemies. They associate that idea with fascism and with Dachau and Auschwitz.

Whats the % on this author having at some point within the past weeks called Trump "a thousand times worse than Biden"?

Edit: Checked and no, this is one of those demons who proclaims a political ideology then takes no political stances in the slightest, does nothing but talk endlessly about legal minutiae and technicalities then retweets one single tweet about US aid giving 1 dollar to an Ecuadorian farmer.

What a roundabout way of saying “I’m a stupid little baby who has no idea what the fuck I’m talking about and my conception of politics is dumber and less developed than that of an infant”

When I was in highscool I read a book called "Why We're Liberals". I wanted to get into politics because as a queer kid in the rural south US I at least knew enough about politics to know the conservatives weren't on my side. And let me tell you that book was the most pusilanimous swill I've ever had the displeasure of reading. It was basically just the author describing problems like gay rights but then whining that it's not important enough to do anything about it right now, that there were much more important problems to also ignore. I swear that book must have been an op because even as a child I immediately realized neolib politics was never going to help people and in the absence of any alternative I just gave up thinking about changing things. The frustrating thing about liberals when they say "we'll get to it eventually, you can't expect to have your rights overnight" is its true, they act like they need to tell queer people that like we don't already know. But the answer to that isn't to sit on your thumbs, if something is difficult and will take a lot of time that means you should start working on it now instead of later. They dangle these carrots to get you to vote for them but actually doing anything isn't political expedient for them.

The rule of law is central to liberalism. ... It forbids unduly rapid changes in the law.

It's pretty funny how dipshits like this think that people just aren't accepting enough of the only political philosophy most of them have been exposed to their entire lives by having it crammed down their throats in both electoral politics and mainstream media, and that they just need to be told to open their mouths a little wider and swallow another load of horseshit along with all the rest, and that will surely improve things somehow.