Beet
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« on: July 05, 2018, 03:19:42 PM » |
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The meaning of social liberalism has changed. It used to mean you were for civil rights and were secular and sexually liberated and were for women's rights and were pro-choice. Now it means you get offended at minor things, engage in online bullying of anyone who doesn't toe the line, virtue signal, and make race-baiting your bread and butter.
As for economic conservatism, for about three-quarters of my life the core of this ideology was Hayek and Friedman and the idea that if just left alone, the market would fix everything. That whole thing fell down dead in 2008, when the entire economy would have collapsed without government intervention. Sure you can still make the argument for less regulations, lower taxes, yes, but the soul of that belief system was ripped out in 2008. It's like the collapse of the Soviet Union. A whole edifice came tumbling down.
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