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2020-04-14 Science & Technology

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-14 06:07|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Liberalism IS mental illness.

Posted by AlanC 2020-04-14 07:26|| 2020-04-14 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Only the hijacking of the word "liberal" is.
Stop calling socialists "liberal". They are anything but that.

Posted by European Conservative 2020-04-14 07:34|| 2020-04-14 07:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Chicken. Egg.

Posted by Mercutio 2020-04-14 08:14|| 2020-04-14 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 In Germany "liberal" is a supporter of small gov/free market politics.
I think you call them "classical liberals".

Posted by European Conservative 2020-04-14 08:17|| 2020-04-14 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 In this country only academic leftists who've lived and studied in continental Europe use "liberal" (usual formulation is "neoliberal") to mean "free market-supporting capitalist."

Nearly everyone else uses the word liberal to designate those who support a significant amount of state intervention to correct market failures - which renders the term all but useless as a meaningful marker of political differences.

The American left shuns the term, favoring "progressive" instead.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-14 08:27|| 2020-04-14 08:27|| Front Page Top

#6 "neoliberal" is meant to be an insult btw.

Posted by European Conservative 2020-04-14 08:30|| 2020-04-14 08:30|| Front Page Top

#7 The word/term "liberal", some might say, surely got corrupted. I think your average American would only understand "Libertarian" v a "classical Liberal" such as in the UK and elsewhere.

How's the FDP in Germany doing lately? If I recall, they got pretty beaten up over the past few elections.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-14 08:31|| 2020-04-14 08:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Liberal used to mean someone who believed in liberty. Used to.

Much like 'gay' using to mean a happy person.

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-04-14 08:33|| 2020-04-14 08:33|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^^And Gallio cared for none of these things.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-14 08:34|| 2020-04-14 08:34|| Front Page Top

#10 eppur si gay

Posted by Lex 2020-04-14 08:35|| 2020-04-14 08:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Anyways, I think the causality in the title is reversed.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-14 08:38|| 2020-04-14 08:38|| Front Page Top

#12 FDP isn't doing well because they aren't doing much these days.

Posted by European Conservative 2020-04-14 08:40|| 2020-04-14 08:40|| Front Page Top

#13 I believe in liberal libations.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-14 10:18|| 2020-04-14 10:18|| Front Page Top

#14 I think mental illness is a requirement these days for lefties.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-04-14 13:08|| 2020-04-14 13:08|| Front Page Top

#15 /\ And "news" reporters/correspondents.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-14 13:13|| 2020-04-14 13:13|| Front Page Top

#16

'Liberals' were once essentially people of low self worth with dysfunctional psyches. They are now almost always individuals with a superficial facade of virtuosity but in their lives, while in their choices and attitudes they exhibit an amoral character and really shallow personalities. It is the amoral part, coupled with the usual 'progressive , atheist, pan-sexual' tropes that gives them their political identity in our eyes. Most conservatives see them only as the hair-dyeing, tarot reading, party hoppers and socialites and believe them to be inferior samples. They are just the foot-soldiers, the judases in fact.

The real Left is composed of some highly motivated, psychopaths that have learnt to play collectively, in order to advance their ultimate end. A hedonist utopia for themselves and their mercenary loyalists.

Today, because of the ungainliness of our chosen moralist shackles, the Left has garnered immense power. Even the masses not directly adherent to their dogmas cannot question their carefully cultivated academic, social and moral credibility.

They leveraged the common need to socialize inherent in academics, unemployed people and youth from broken homes very early on. The conservative, trusting in the power of Status Quo and the ability of the world to mend itself, was complacent. The Left braved jail, ignominy, batons and unemployment. Their early generations sacrificed for the strength their bastard offspring enjoys today. They adapted to our constitutionally placed barriers to psychopathy and came out dominant. But we dared not go the un-constitutional way even when we saw what they were going for, no.

The situation is basically the same everywhere, not just in America. The Left has even commandeered institutions that classify mental illnesses today; they have challenged the sanity of democratically elected leaders on grounds that they cannot toe the line.

We are slowly becoming the outliers of this skewed socio-political environment. Soon, for the larger part of the cowardly world - it's you and me who who will be considered mentally ill.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-04-14 18:15|| 2020-04-14 18:15|| Front Page Top

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