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This is the second time you complain about liberals on this thread, but who do you mean?
Economic laissez-faire liberals I take it?
And how does this correlate to Brexit voters who are mostly Conservative/brexit party voters? (In the case of both of them, economic liberalism and social...well it's not even social conservatism any more, just dogwhistling/sloganism)
Not many of those in lfggs...or they don't admit it :) :)
I'm not begrudging people who can get out. Good for them. I can do without the brexit drama though...
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I mean it in the sense big L liberalism, the political philosophy. The majority of Conservatives are still liberals, they are just right wing liberals (there’s a Libertarian and Fascist fringe obvs). Left liberals like to pretend the differences they have with right liberals are substantive, but they are in agreement on the main issues - the primacy of property rights and the market, the composition of government, the authority of the state - and agree on more than they disagree. see, for example, the way a left liberal recoils to the warm embrace of a Tory when presented with an actual socialist.
The term is a useful catch all for the gamut of mainstream/acceptable political opinion in the West. It’s also helpful to distinguish left liberals from the Left, which left liberals often like to imagine themselves as being part of.
Eejit
Hey, tone deaf liberals is an integral part of how we ended up in this shitty mess. They’re on a roll, why stop now?