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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @J_indetroit
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @J_indetroit
a tradition held to by people considered conservative by progressives seeing themselves as the innovators in social justice.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Oh I see. That's already kind of happening. I consider myself a liberal, not progressive. But called conservative by far left. But...
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Replying to @J_indetroit @HPluckrose
I don't think my values change in the process & therefore I'm not really a conservative. I'm still advocating increased individual freedom.
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Replying to @J_indetroit @HPluckrose
The tactics promoted by some on the Left are counterproductive to freedom & equality of opportunity. They are conservatives of a sort.
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Yes, but not in the sense I mean of 'one who wishes to conserve traditional values.'
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