with the assumptions of classical liberalism, which has been the ruling ideology of the US since "We hold these truths to be self-evident...
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Politics have always been about identity, about "what does this policy say about/for/to me in my social position?" But bc we all agreed...
on Jefferson/Locke/Rousseau/Hobbes and their descendants as a common ethical base, identity tensions have been less obvious/central...
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but both liberty-contracting conservatives and contextualized ethics liberals are fraying the classically liberal center at either edge...
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until and unless we collectively agree on/develop a new framework that accounts for a few crucial things, we probably won't have peace...
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