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Old 12-10-2019, 12:37 PM   #6
Jim in CT
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Originally Posted by Pete F. View Post
Liberalism, as it developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and flowered in the nineteenth, puts major emphasis on the freedom of individuals to control their own destinies. Individualism is its creed, collectivism and tyranny its enemy….In politics, liberalism expressed itself as a reaction against authoritarian regimes. Liberals favored limiting the rights of hereditary rulers, establishing democratic parliamentary institutions, extending the franchise, and guaranteeing civil rights. They favored such measures both for their own sake, as a direct expression of essential political freedoms, and as a means of facilitating the adoption of liberal economic measures.

Though that would be antithetical to Trumplicans, who are authoritarians at best and Monarchists at heart.
Conservatives are authoritarians? Yeah, you really have your fingers on the pulse...And liberals believe in less central government, more liberty to the individual? You literally could not be more wrong.

I'm less free now, than I was from 2009-2016? No rational person believes that. Certainly no Christian believes it.
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