Historically speaking:What does liberal mean?
A modern perversion of the European love of liberty. The Greeks were freer than us but didn't entertain delusions about slavery being evil (though it has many downsides) or similar revolutions against hierarchy. But it's a dead movement that has nothing to do with contemporary race communism. We call leftists liberals in the same way medievals/ancients used old names like Scythians and Saracens for new peoples they encountered.
>>17440211In the modern context: it's the abracadabra of politics and means whatever you want it to mean.Most people that "identify" as liberal can't even name all the US states.
It referred originally to a view of rights. Rights existed before it but it took a different view of them. In the 17th century John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant together developed an idea centered on personal freedom and constitutional government. It arose partially because of the Protestant reformation and the attempt for Protestants to create multiple unique states and governments. In this sense, it became seen as a kinda anti-domination and view of individual right with social coopreration. It involved a rejection of mercantilism and arbitrary state power basically outside of some coordinated good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcfuOxDsKwU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TowO3jtrVo
>>17440211Sodomy
>>17440211it used to mean anti-monarchy but now it came full circle and means total obedience to the new world order. the horseshoe meme was right
>>17440909GTFO my board retard.
>>17440211The etymological root means "free," but also "child," "people" and "to grow." To me, that suggests that liberalism is about allowing people to exist as children, who are bound to make mistakes and injure themselves, but also learn and mature in their own ways in the process. This also means modern education and the media aren't liberal institutions in the slightest, since these institutions control information for the purpose of pushing their own ideological and moral views onto people.
>>17440909>total obedience to the new world orderi don't follow...liberals follow trump, the newest adherent to the NWO that will be sworn in tomorrow?
