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What?
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In what ways do the Republicans respect equality before the law? I can't accept this label. They are conservatives/fascists. Not liberal.
The Democrats are neoliberal/conservative. I'm more okay describing them as liberal because the voters tend to be, but the party itself is not.
If you arent distinguishing between ideology, party and individual then I don't think you fully understand capitalism.
Capitalism coopts ideology. Liberal voters vote for a Democrat, then capitalists bribe the Democrat to do something else.
What's ironic is that the objective fact of the genocide in Palestine is built on liberal thought.
The genocide in Palestine is wrong because they cannot have a right as individuals, they do not have liberty, they have not had an election allowed to be held since 2008, they have no political equality, they have no right to private property and settlers can kick them out, they are not equal to Jews under the law.
Your criticisms of the Democrats don't seem to be that they're liberal, but that they're not liberal enough.
Any true liberal would support Palestine from your own source.
Liberals don't consider people outside their country as human
Also, liberalism doesn't consider people who don't own property as human
That should resolve the contradictions
Those are fascists. Not liberals.
Wrong again. John Locke (the founder of liberalism), owned shares in slavery-concerns, and openly defended slavery. The 3 liberal countries (US, UK, and Netherlands), all heavily engaged in the slave trade, (britain and the US especially). The US genocided an entire contintent and hundreds of native tribes, under a liberal form of government.
Nazi germany explicitly tried to emulate the US model (Doing to eastern europe what the US did to turtle island), and failed. In fact the only thing you can say with regard to fascism vs liberalism, is that liberalism is far more effective form of government for genocide than fascism was.
Oh I see what's going on here. You're not separating the ideology of philosophical liberalism from the actions of a state power that is labeled as "liberal".
To my point.
If a person is capable of separating ideology from the actions of state powers they might have considered the possibility "John Locke was a hypocrite".
It's disingenuous to accuse liberals of supporting every single action a supposedly "liberal" state power might make. State powers aren't ruled by ideology alone, there are a bunch of different parties compromising and corrupting and grabbing power for their own interests that has nothing to do with liberalism.
Oh it was so much more horrific than you can put into words.
"Liberalism for me, not for thee" should be the Americans national motto.
Tecumseh is considered a national war hero in my country for that exact reason. They had the right to defend their land and our liberal democracy recognizes that.
This is probably my biggest regret in history.
Britain wanted to establish a native "buffer nation" between Canada and the US which Tecumseh was heavily rallying for. The US said "no way".
I wish they got their land.