So then, PC is a term that describes the self censorship practiced as to not offend a group, the state censorship practiced to protect groups in a society, and a pushback against state and self censorship in the name of “linguistic and behavioral liberalism” (what the “politically ...
What does liberal mean in politics? Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. ... Liberals also ended mercantilist policies, royal monopolies and other barriers to trade, instead promoting free trade and marketization. Is ...
Marx was not wrong to think that capitalism wrecks any traditional social system and erects new classes continuously. But liberalism which is the ideological backbone of capitalism is obsessed with security, with domestification, gentrification. It does not care about classes in a material sense but...
With all of that noted, liberalism and conservatism aren’t either/or choices. In fact, I would propose to you that the answer is somewhere in the middle (as is expressed by conservatism as a general concept; which is mean to be temper, but not oppress, liberalism classically speaking, as...
for themselves rather than standing on the shoulders of Leftist or Liberal giants who can at any moment turn on them, since as Tim Winter recently reminded us, it seems Liberalism can in the final account tolerate only itself. If that happens, Muslims may find themselves politically defenceless...
Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. —Ron...
Not one of my political views, cultural values or causes have changed since 1974. But I’m now called a Racist at least weekly. I’ve not met a single liberal Dem in DC since I got back here in 2015. Not one. The new Left and its new “liberalism” is intolerant, poorly-educated...
(pp. 196-197). So what, exactly, are the sorts of elites which philosophical localists who 1) hope to preserve democracy without 2) dismissing everything liberalism and egalitarianism have accomplished (accomplishments that Deneen, Polet, and every other serious localist can’t pretend to ...
You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy. —Sydney Pollack 7 I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get...
readerjohnPolitical correctness,Political Matters,postliberalism,POTUS,progressivismLeave a commentJanuary 25, 20257 Minutes Tuesday, 1/21/25 Does 47 have what greatness takes? [T]he heroic presidency runs the persistent danger of becoming craven or abusive, as Vietnam and Watergate taught. This is...