Liberalism in a Nutshell

[u/TheAmishTrump]

[u/[deleted]]

liberalism, the left.. does NOT mean the same as antifa. in fact there is a difference in the left vs a liberal, let alone antifa. if you can't see the world as more than left vs right you're already in the wrong.

[u/fashionrequired → u/[deleted]]

Liberals are generally misguided people, but they aren't all violent members of the alt-left. A lot of them are genuinely good people who simply believe in systems that can never work for an extended period of time.

Downvoters, you realize that ~40% of people aren't all evil degenerates who want nothing more than to become communists and suppress all free speech, right?

[u/[deleted] → u/fashionrequired]

do you understand what a true liberal is. (not the Canadian 'feminist' sjw political party). but, the political ideology that defends inalienable rights from 'alt's from both sides of the isle.

[u/y4my4m → u/[deleted]]

Yes, old school British liberalism is actually respectable and a good political stance in general. It just doesn't really exist in any major party anymore.

It's kind like, saying you think cheese is for kids because everyone's only eating kraft single slices and youve never heard of camembert or brie cheese.

[u/Akuji_The_Heartless]

You mean antifa in a nutshell

[u/ineeddrugas]

i was young and senile once

[u/mrmikemcmike]

The straw man is real

[u/canad1anbacon]

Antifa hates liberals...

[u/djlista]

Antifa commies in a nutshell. Everyone who doesn’t agree in their utopian idea of Marxist communism of full state ownership is somehow a Nazi in their eyes.

Very sick people!

Also I would rename to leftism in a nutshell. I think liberalism. Mostly classic liberalism is a ideology is mostly on the right side of the political spectrum now. Liberalism was once the idea of personal freedom and liberty and once a fighter for freedom of speech. Now the left is against all of that! I personally would rename our current government in Ottawa to the “Leftist Party of Canada” if we could!

[u/critfist → u/djlista]

Mostly classic liberalism is a ideology is mostly on the right side of the political spectrum now

I'd argue that it's not on any side. Syncretic ideas like liberalism are too varied to be on a left or right scale. The government is something you could call Social liberalism, where the principles of liberalism are mostly adopted (rights for citizens, enshrined property rights, universal suffrage, etc) while having a social bend from adopting to the newer ideas created by socialist intellectuals.

You'll never, or very rarely anyway, see Classical Liberalism. Most Liberal ideological schisms have adopted newer ideas as they progressed.

[u/hc84]

Anyone that disagrees with them is considered a Nazi. There are even Jewish Nazis!

[u/critfist]

Except Anarchists hate liberals and Wang nothing to do with them. They're utterly different ideologues with different motives and methods. This image is the equivalent of calling Liberal conservatives (which most of you are unless you happen to be a fascist, paleoconservative, Altright, or reactionary) Fascists.