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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @note_bene 10h \ on: Your Terms Are Broken (Conservative / Liberal) Politics_And_Law
  • Progressive: removal of choice.
    • Everyone must take the vax
    • Everyone must wear a mask
    • Every business must stay closed
    • Nobody can homeschool
    • Nobody can own firearms
  • Right wing: exclusion of subgroups.
    • if you weren't born here, you're not really part of this small town
    • Women shouldn't vote
    • Gays can't call their unions "marriage"
    • Infidels out of the Holy Lands
    • Only Samoans can be real Hawaiians.
What we called liberalism is probably (and the USA has been pretty good at) is staying away and moving away from either of these polarities - both the Left's removal of choice and the Right's institutionalization of exclusion. Until recently of course.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 4h
Can you elaborate on the Samoan/Hawaiian point?
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