• ryannathans
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    2 months ago

    Guessing by OP the definition of liberal here is libertarian?

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        Over time, the meaning of liberalism began to diverge in different parts of the world. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica: “In the United States, liberalism is associated with the welfare-state policies of the New Deal programme of the Democratic administration of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, whereas in Europe it is more commonly associated with a commitment to limited government and laissez-faire economic policies.”

        Fucking Americans always gotta be different

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      No, a liberal, ie someone who espouses liberalism, the free market capitalist ideology. Libertarians are anti-state liberals.

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        Liberalism has one necessity of wanting a very limited government. The same as libertarian. Anti state would be anarchist?

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

        the dominant form of libertarianism in the United States. This libertarianism, a revival of classical liberalism