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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Replying to @HPluckrose
If a liberal is someone who wants to progress towards certain goals & a conservative is someone who wants to conserve traditional values?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Then a liberal who achieves those goals would, on achieving them, shift to being someone who works to conserve them & opposing change.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Wouldn't societies always change over time, and wouldn't a liberal always try to be open to change that increases freedom & well being?
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Replying to @J_indetroit
Yes, there'll always be tinkering but the values which supported what is now considered liberal values could be so old as to be conservative
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I think you can value freedom and individual liberty and always find ways in the world not yet anticipated to improve those.
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Replying to @J_indetroit
So do I but I think valuing these could become traditional values that we need to conserve and so this could become conservative values.
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I realise I'm using these terms counterintuitively but in principle liberalism could become conservative values.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @J_indetroit
We already see people who value freedom & individual Liberty called conservative & behind the times by the far left - enlightenment naivety.
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