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The first sentence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism:
From the first paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_property[^1]:
That’s what liberals believe. Liberals are those who support capitalism, which both Democrats and Republicans do.
[^1]: Not to be confused with personal property.
"Rights of the individual", "liberty", "consent of the governed", "political equality" and "equality of the law" are meangless buzzwords that should be ignored is an interesting angle.
Most Republicans also believe in those things, though they quibble with Democrats over the details. Only fascists, monarchists, etc. don’t.
The Republicans are abducting citizens to El Salvadorian death camps...
And Democrats aided & abetted a genocide until they lost control of the executive branch four months ago.
Exactly, thank you great point. Are you starting to agree these aren't very "liberal" actions so maybe the Republicans and Democrats aren't so liberal after all?
Other way around: being in favor of genocide and kidnapping isn't as incompatible with liberalism as you think.
The thing is: the first priority of liberal is to maintain capitalism and private property, the "rights of the individual", "liberty" and etc can be discarded to maintain the status quo, also, this fancy words is only for them, every other country/people can die in a genocide.