Me too. Thanks.
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No it's called being a leftist. Liberals are all that but they suck corporate cock, too.
Free markets come before free people, because collecting rent is the way you get capital growth in a private economy.
More or less. The idea of "life, liberty and private property" from og liberalism didn't specifically mean a right to be alive or have one's needs met it was more about individually choosing what style of life and career you want. Likewise the ideology of having your personal property always protected as sacrosanct from the government mediation has been pretty good for corporate interest.
That whole "pursuit of Happiness" thing was just Jefferson riffing on John Locke but the sentiment was basically the same. Liberal was hot branding back in the day to mean "generally permissive" but it's been a hot minute and people have really started to peel back the label.
Empowering Corporations restricts the rights and freedoms of individual peoples, so no. Also, in the USA at least, I've never met a self-described liberal who supports deregulation or opposes taxation of corporations.
It's literally the foundation of neoliberalism, my guy.
If you want to draw a line between neoliberalism and liberals, fine, but when you start asking "liberals" for their stances on the distinguishing beliefs not a whole lot of them support going back to the New Deal or even Kennedy era type beliefs on the role of government.
Yeah, I'm telling you that they don't exist for decades now. Modern day neoliberals call themselves Libertarians. In the 1900s there were self-identified neoliberals who copied the moniker used to describe 1800s thinkers. Nowadays it's just an insult that tankies use to justify their both-sides bullshit.
With a quick search on multiple search engines I cannot find any modern groups who self-identify as Liberal and also as Neoliberal Laissez-Faire Capitalists. Because deregulation generally opposes liberalism as it stands in today's politics.
Lol, okay