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Who is saying being an advocate for human rights is a flaw or imperfection? I'm saying the opposite. You can't ignore human rights to justify the actions of a leader or movement, even if the actions were allegedly done for a greater good.
That's what authoritarians always do. We can only achieve utopia if we get rid of the people standing in our way. We can only achieve X ideal tomorrow by sacrificing liberty today. We have to trust that the leader/party knows what's best for us, even if we disagree with their actions.
Liberal means proponent of human rights.
Talk about not having a point. If that was still true, they would have changed their party name.
There is no Liberal Party of the USA. There is a Liberal Party in UK, Australia, etc and in those places you could rightfully say "liberals are cunts" but in the USA the word means what the dictionary says it means. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberalism
First line on their Wikipedia article. You don't need to have the word "liberal" in your name to be one. It's actually precisely why it's used as an insult by certain progressives. They stopped being a liberal party a long time ago. Compared to Europe, Australia, Canada, etc, we have two shades of conservative as a choice.
Edit: I did say party name tho, I get it if you mean how we don't have a liberal party in the sense they aren't called "the liberal party" but I'm thinking that's not what you were getting at either.
The point I'm trying to explain to you is that the CONCEPTS of Liberal and the LIBERAL PARTIES are different even to the point of being opposed. The DNC are a Liberal Party, but the Liberal Party of Australia is NOT a Liberal Party.
It's kind of like how Republicans aren't upholding a republic, the Chinese Communist Party aren't Communists, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are not a Democratic Republic, doesn't belong to the people, and also do not own the Korean Peninsula.
Right, liberalism is about equality and conservativism is about hierarchies. That's why it's important to call people out when they fall short of those values out of a sense of needing to appease a wider voter base:
Its not that Biden didnt show up for those fights he secretly beleived in, its that Biden and the modern dem party doesnt beleive in those fights anymore. They keep them around as campaign props. They beleive that whoever amasses the most campaign money wins the campaign, regardless of platform.
No. Liberal generally means fiscally responsible while moderately socially progressive. You'll note in that statement that the economic policy comes before the social ones, and generally at the expense of the social policies.
That just sounds like watered down libertarianism, and btw you're not arguing with me you're arguing with an american dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberalism.
Yeah, it's right there 2 d because it's literally an economic policy platform.
The part that says Liberalism would ban the occupation and sale of land? I feel like that's not the "gotcha" you think it is, that basically opposes the concept of statehood and capitalism entirely.
it used to. It no longer does.
Absolutely still does, now more than ever with so many vocal opponents to it. Fox News decrys "librulz!" as the scum of the earth for daring oppose the ethnonationalist takeover of the USA.
Sure. But fox news calling someone bad doesnt necesarrily always mean they are good. We should never define ourselves by what idiot shitstains say, especially for a party so sensitive to bullying.
The DNC and thus the democratic party has been a dumpster fire for a decade at least and Biden drove us all off a cliff. Everyone wants to pretend his unpopularity was solely about his age, and not about his republican-curious career of bad ideas and mediocre half-measures lukewarm leadership. In the last election the DNC steered hard right so they could keep taking AIPAC money and ignore the left, and it failed, like it always does. They will try it again too-- they hate the left more than they hate centrist republicans-- and liberals still wont even admit that. So we're all doomed until centrists pull their heads out of their collective rears.
I feel like if you used Fox News calling something bad as a litmus test for it being good that you would be correct more often than not.
The DNC policies are very left. They want to remove money from politics, fairly redistrict election maps, give medical care to everyone, build strong alliances and reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles across the world, and tax the rich. If we had more than 48 DNC senators at any point in the last ten years things wouldn't be so shit in the first place.