Billy_Kinetta
Paladin of the Lost Hour
- Mar 4, 2013
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You misuse the word liberalism. Don't.Ah, that is my liberalism. Try again.Liberalism founded this nation, Rez boy.Communism/socialism/progressivism/liberalism… incestuous to the core... lol
"Liberalism, political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics. Liberals typically believe that government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others; but they also recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty. As the revolutionary American pamphleteer Thomas Paine expressed it in “Common Sense” (1776), government is at best “a necessary evil.” Laws, judges, and police are needed to secure the individual’s life and liberty, but their coercive power may also be turned against him. The problem, then, is to devise a system that gives government the power necessary to protect individual liberty but also prevents those who govern from abusing that power."
Learn and defend it.
Yes, but not your version of "liberalism".
Your grasp of history and philosophy is ineffably thin, ergo you have been hogwashed by dark men in high places.
The classical liberalism expounded by the Founding Fathers bears no relation whatever to the nonsensical totalitarianist Progressivism that today passes for liberalism in America.
Au contraire, you people absconded with it in the 1920s.