My guy, you simply don’t recognize that what is happening is the end result of those policies you like, just taken to their logical conclusion. Liberalism will always devolve to this.
we are surrounded by authoritarians on all sides right now because power corrupts, and only those that seek power run for office. I reject the notion that what we are dealing with is the end result of any (actual) liberal ideology.
inb4 but muh mass immigration, muh homeless crisis, muh niggers!
all these issues stem from welfare slavery, importing desperate people and then addicting them to government handouts and making them dependent. that's not liberalism. the welfare state was one of the leftist positions that I universally rejected growing up.
It is, even if you don't realize it. You're claiming that liberalism necessarily evolves into woke totalitarianism. Which implies that liberalism contains within itself the seeds of woke totalitarianism that will inevitably manifest through a process of internal conflict. That liberalism itself is unstable due to its contradictions which can only be resolved through a process of adversarial discourses and social conflicts.
Otherwise knows as historicism, by claiming that liberalism can only evolve in one specific direction you imply that liberalism contains a particular dialectic and that this dialectic has a fixed logical endpoint.
My guy, you simply don’t recognize that what is happening is the end result of those policies you like, just taken to their logical conclusion. Liberalism will always devolve to this.
we are surrounded by authoritarians on all sides right now because power corrupts, and only those that seek power run for office. I reject the notion that what we are dealing with is the end result of any (actual) liberal ideology.
all these issues stem from welfare slavery, importing desperate people and then addicting them to government handouts and making them dependent. that's not liberalism. the welfare state was one of the leftist positions that I universally rejected growing up.
Sounds like you're arguing that the course of history is predetermined by a dialectical process.
Pretty Marxist way to think lol.
That’s not what I’m suggesting at all. Maybe you should look up what those words mean first.
It is, even if you don't realize it. You're claiming that liberalism necessarily evolves into woke totalitarianism. Which implies that liberalism contains within itself the seeds of woke totalitarianism that will inevitably manifest through a process of internal conflict. That liberalism itself is unstable due to its contradictions which can only be resolved through a process of adversarial discourses and social conflicts.
Otherwise knows as historicism, by claiming that liberalism can only evolve in one specific direction you imply that liberalism contains a particular dialectic and that this dialectic has a fixed logical endpoint.
So you're at least in Hegelian territory.
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