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    Ever thought about what being a "liberal" actually is?:

    "Liberalism is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality.[1][2][3] Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally they support ideas and programmes such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free markets, civil rights, democratic societies, secular governments, gender equality and international cooperation.[4][5][6][7][8][9][1...

    Liberalism first became a distinct political movement during the Age of Enlightenment, when it became popular among philosophers and economists in the Western world. Liberalism rejected the prevailing social and political norms of hereditary privilege, state religion, absolute monarchy and the divine right of kings. The 17th-century philosopher John Locke is often credited with founding liberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition. Locke argued that each man has a natural right to life, liberty and property,[11] while adding that governments must not violate these rights based on the social contract. Liberals opposed traditional conservatism and sought to replace absolutism in government with representative democracy and the rule of law."

    How can people be opposed to this??

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    • Liberalism is also a mental disorder aka Islamofascism.
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    • Exactly. Unfortunately a large number of people have twisted it's meaning the same way some also consider politicians like Obama and Clinton 'the left'.fadein11
    • Like all political movements the far edges disintegrate into absurdity. Just like the right. Unfortunately simple minded people simplify groups of people andfadein11
    • their beliefs by throwing them all into the same group.fadein11
    • Liberalism is always about freedom and equality. contemporary US conservatism is basically protectionism for the wealthy elite, stupid people and paedophiles.lowimpakt
    • Because we have all the things listed in the first paragraph and people's lives are not improving, or getting worse. And some ppl don't want those thingsFax_Benson
    • omg talking about 'isms' being a mental disorder, from our very own little plastic nazi.face_melter
    • american liberalism has differed in definition since the 19th century. and 'neo liberalism' is hyper capitalism.kingsteven
    • in it's broadest definition i'd say most political parties globally (no matter how it's polarised) hold some liberal beliefs.kingsteven
    • but as an insult 'liberal cuck' is a real box ticker troll-wise in regards to guaranteeing a frothy retort.kingsteven
    • Because Jesus was the most liberal dude. Because nit having birders is the most liberal shit. Alas the world is not ready
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    • I hate this fucking keyboard
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    • "Unfortunately simple minded people simplify groups of people and their beliefs by throwing them all into the same group" what an ironic to say :)Gnash
    • Sweden is hating all this now I hearrobotron3k
    • @gnash - like yourself who is daily triggered by the awful extreme examples of liberalism (you clearly hate by the way). So what is your answer? tell me wherefadein11
    • you sit (preferably not on the fence I hope)?fadein11
    • Like I said in my first statement, do not whitewash progress with a few bad examples of borderline mentally ill people taking positive values to the absurd.fadein11
    • But your stance is clear anyway ;)fadein11
    • popcorn.giffadein11
    • gotta laugh that the guy with a mental disorder would be the one to label something as a mental disorder. omg, the guy with multiple accounts,kona
    • using multiple logins daily, using software to mask his ip, multiple accounts talking to themselves,... multiple personality disorder and borderline retardationkona
    • it is multiple russians kona. omg is someones shift work.kingsteven
    • Yes it's silly how this term gets misused. By the classic definition all sides of the U.S. political spectrum are some variation of liberal.yuekit
    • don't even get me started on people who think neoliberalism and liberal values are the same thing. morons!fadein11
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