Unified Liberalism
Like the two sides of a coin the two sides of Liberalism seem opposed to each other. Their perspective is totally different, each facing a different way, but that is an illusion. One side of a coin cannot exist without the other side and so it is with Liberalism. Right Economic Liberalism and Left Social Liberalism are mutually supporting, one cannot exist without the other. They fight on different fronts for the same cause, the same belief
The belief they share in common is
freedom, they believe that you and everyone else should be free. Free from the
social and economic conditions that hold you back, free to make your own
decisions, your own future. It sounds lovely doesn’t it?
In a good
many ways it is lovely, but it’s first great problem is that it recognises no
limits. Freedom is absolute or at least should be absolute, total autonomy is
the goal. The Institutions that make up your life that give it meaning are only
allowed if they do not get in the way of your absolute autonomy. If it gets in
the way it must be removed or changed, it has no right to tell you what to do,
to give you the absolute Autonomist a commandment. You are free you have no
master, no overlord, no one can tell you to stop or even to slow down,
according to Liberalism you are absolutely free, or at least should be.
All of the Political parties in the last two posts are fighting for the same cause, Liberalism and every time we forget that we hand them power.
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