Would it be true to say that a coherent liberal is someone who looks forward to the possibility of being a conservative? Bear with me.
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I realise I'm using these terms counterintuitively but in principle liberalism could become conservative values.
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We already see people who value freedom & individual Liberty called conservative & behind the times by the far left - enlightenment naivety.
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I guess if society were changing in ways that were more authoritarian & restricting, then the liberal would be defending existing freedoms.
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It's hard to say how it could change & I'm still not entirely clear what I'm even trying to get at but yes, liberal democracy cld become
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a tradition held to by people considered conservative by progressives seeing themselves as the innovators in social justice.
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In the same way that Christians were once the radical innovators and became the conservatives because things moved on.
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This makes sense, and I'd have no issue being labelled 'conservative' in that narrow way
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This is what I was talking about in a semi-facetious and muddled way.
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Kind of a reassuring idea,b/c imagine how much progress would have to have been made for things like freedom 2b the 'norm' the world over :)
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hehehe...you argue this in your POMO article, liberals wanting to conserve the liberal status quo...although i would see it as more like 1
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Yes, I think this is part of it. The feeling that leftism requires challenging the status quo & universal liberalism had become it.
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we can do both...we just have to be clear that change is not necessary progress...
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Aren't these already common traditional values? I interpret progressivism as wanting to progress the world to optimize values.
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