Loading ...CONSERVATISM VS CLASSIC LIBERALISM VS WOKEISM
Jeff Childers Brilliantly explains where we are and What OUR new Coalition is !
: I got some gentle and not inappropriate chiding in the comments about sometimes leaning too much into conservative politics, making the posts irritating to my liberal readers. I used to say this a lot, but I need to repeat it now: I love my liberal readers! I totally get that a healthy two-party system is critical for a functioning democracy.
The problem right at the moment — for us ALL — is that the 2022 democrat party has been hijacked by woke leftists who love mandates and govern more like Chinese dictators than classic liberals. Classic liberals value human rights, bodily integrity, medical freedom, freedom of speech, religious liberty, and worker’s protections, for just a few examples.
I desperately want to go back to the days when I can be the type of republican who only cares about low taxes and small government. We are in a real crisis when the REPUBLICANS have to take over defending basic human rights and freedoms and employees’ rights. Guys — and I’m talking directly to you democrats and former dems — we are all in the boiling bouillabaisse together now.
Things are all upside-down and backwards. Republicans used to defend corporations and their profits. Now the big companies have been hijacked, just like democrat leadership, and republicans are forced to fight their former corporate allies. See, e.g., Disney. Just like you dems now have to fight your own leadership. And if you still ain’t convinced, try explaining to me how classic liberalism is at all consistent with the 2022 Democrat party’s cozy new relationship with big companies and foreign wars.
In other words — and here is my point — the Republican Party is the ONLY party defending classically liberal values. If you are a classic liberal of whatever party, you’re welcome here. American politics have coalesced into two new parties: the freedom party and the authoritarian party.
Classic liberals are welcome here, and I mean no offense to them. But woke leftists can already read the corporate media, they don’t need to bother with C&C. They can buzz off.
Since the Overton Window (what’s acceptable) has shifted towards Authoritarian and away from freedom, many Classical Liberals are now considered Conservative.
They found a new home. Ie Elon Musk and quite a few high profile comedians.
“Classical Liberals are now considered Conservative”
I think that’s how its been on the other side of the pond all along.
The confusion has been sown over here in the States where Liberals usurped the term, all the while shunning its historical meaning.
Your take on Elon is interesting. Never voted anything but Democrat his entire life.
That was Kuntsler’s POV in the past also.
And Reagan: “I didn’t leave the party. The party left me.”
The Democratic party has certainly changed. In the 1960’s, Kennedy said “Ask not what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for the country.” The democrats were the party of the blue collar working families. NOT any more! Unfortunately many people just keep voting them in because their grandparents and their parents voted that way, so they do too.