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
So am I not a liberal anymore since I think the agenda for change of the modern left has gotten ridiculous?
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Replying to @thediplomat1987
Huh? No. But liberalism would have become an established tradition to conserve against the progressives.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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#GoogleManifesto is teaching me that promoting equality of opportunity and individualism get you labeled an X-ist by the left.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Yes and liberalism is therefore seen as conservative. In one sense it is. It is a tradition with a long history that we want to conserve.
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