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Topic	There's a conspiracy theory that the new Velma show was made by a conservative
ellis123 01/22/23 1:42:03 PM #38:	epik_fail1 posted... What does that mean? Serious question Classical liberalism refers to people that believe that capitalism is the best method of government. In modern terms this is basically just viewed through the lens of the Libertarian party as the traditional way to view liberalism versus conservatism was that liberals recognized that unchecked capitalism would just end up in some level of totalitarianism and thus would end up bunk. For instance, a liberal would say that Libertarians just want to be ruled by some sort of mafia-like entity as they have no actual structure beyond "government bad" and as long as the entity ruling over them isn't literally calling itself "the government" they are 100% on board with extreme authoritarianism. Inverse to this a person calling themselves a classical liberal nowadays would decry such structure as authoritarianism as the entire point is to view everything through the "marketplace of ideas" and having a government would just take away from a person's wallet being the sole defining characteristic of what is good and evil. American liberalism, on the other hand, isn't so much a political philosophy or ideology so much as it's just every person who thinks that domestic terrorism is bad. This is why you can have the major "liberal" party be mid/far-right, the average voter be centrist, and the boogieman of their opponents being leftist (of any depth) all at the same time. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. <cite>ellis123 posted [p:971016088] in There's a ... [t:80316391]...</cite> <quote>epik_fail1 posted... </cite><quote>What does that mean? Serious question</quote>Classical liberalism refers to people that believe that capitalism is the best method of government. In modern terms this is basically just viewed through the lens of the Libertarian party as the traditional way to view liberalism versus conservatism was that liberals recognized that unchecked capitalism would just end up in some level of totalitarianism and thus would end up bunk. For instance, a liberal would say that Libertarians just want to be ruled by some sort of mafia-like entity as they have no actual structure beyond "government bad" and as long as the entity ruling over them isn't literally calling itself "the government" they are 100% on board with extreme authoritarianism. Inverse to this a person calling themselves a classical liberal nowadays would decry such structure as authoritarianism as the entire point is to view everything through the "marketplace of ideas" and having a government would just take away from a person's wallet being the sole defining characteristic of what is good and evil.American liberalism, on the other hand, isn't so much a political philosophy or ideology so much as it's just every person who thinks that domestic terrorism is bad. This is why you can have the major "liberal" party be mid/far-right, the average voter be centrist, and the boogieman of their opponents being leftist (of any depth) all at the same time. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!"My FC is in my profile.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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