Of course, in the long long run liberalism has been hugely successful fencing off insolvable religious & metaphysical disagreements in order to delimit the range of politics to more manageable fact/process policy disputes. But there's limits to how far you can delimit.
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What we call post-liberalism (on both left & right) is realization that delimited politics has reached limits & there are in fact crucial political problems that require more substantive & robust value based organizing.
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This is right. And yet there are a number of major issues where a values-based approach would be powerful (climate change, income inequality, gun control)…why don’t liberals lean into values more?
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Their formation prevents them from. They are too shaped by their own history.
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Yeah, and that "characteristic liberal move" is often a self-inflicted fatal wound, and I really wish that more "liberals" would get this. Because OUR OPPONENTS get it, which is how they so easily win narrative battles.https://twitter.com/JamesRobichaux/status/1493386258390921220?s=20&t=EEz1wuovhALN6YqEx10Mfw …
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The main different between liberals and leftists is that leftist belief is based on a moral core of values, and liberalism is based on the core value that capitalist economics is more important than moral values.
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If liberalism breaks everyone down into atomized individuals with their own ‘rights’ then ‘facts’ don’t really matter. The ideology they’re following is liberalism. ‘Individual FREEDOM’ supersedes the greater good no matter what. That is the most important ‘value.’
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except he means disagreements rooted in mythology
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that's what I tried to convey in this thread last week:https://twitter.com/ErikNordman/status/1492148265546141699?t=RhQJmuN5YyUgXzyZIbzhtQ&s=19p …
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