I'm a classical liberal, which means that I believe (like Locke) that Natives have no rights & their land should be plundered, (like Mill) that well-to-do should have more votes than the poor & (like Tocqueville) in French imperialism. No wait, that's not right...
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The problem is classical liberals today aren't even necessarily proponents of liberal democracy. In a liberal democracy, voting is sacred right & everyone can easily vote.
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If they aren't going to be pro-democracy, we modern liberals will carry that torch alone. If free markets matter more than *voting as a right*, then classical libs are our pre-modern forebears. Our ancestors.
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"Liberal-Conservative" is a relatively good existing name for the current pretensions of the Boot/Rubin/Kristol crowd
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TBH, they rather remind me of liberal conservative French Orléanist politicians like Adolphe Thiers, who managed to be horrified by Napoleon III while also completely unwilling to recognize that their own policies had paved the way for him.
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Jordan Peterson seems to describe himself as a Jungian Darwinist as much as a classical liberal, but his views about speech and truthseeking seem very much in the liberal tradition
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The Jung thing is particularly mystifying. "There is a set of symbols with universal human meaning" is an idea I can't believe survives first contact with other humans
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I'm shocked that the liberal intelligentsia can't (won't) id a cryptofascist
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Lately, I mostly hear “classical liberal” from people who are hiding under a veneer of scholarly legitimacy that they’re obviously alt-Right
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They means modernist universalist liberalism in opposition to post modern and identitarian LW or populist RW. They come in more LW (more welfare, sometime antitheist) and RW(more intervention, less tax) versions.
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