@futurebird this - so much this.
I have to tell people that #thinktanks, #brainrot and advantageous framing is older than the TV, older than the radio.
The parents of #liberals and #conservatives were the #liberalists, who were groomed by the #aristocracy and the #barons.
Words like #freemarket basically translate to markets controlled centrally by a few monopolists in an exploitative #RaceToTheBottom, where one or several entities become #KingOfTheHole.
@yianiris pure #libertarianism results in #privatising #power via #oligopoly.
As a #European you should read up on the #barons and the #aristocracy. Note, that whereas some aristocrats were appointed by royalty, others were made noble because they were so "successful" - i.e they were barons sanctioned by the crown.
The barons who hated the crown? Those were the #liberalists. In essence, people like to forget that part of European history because it doesn't suit their ideology or agenda.
@flyhigh Supposed #anarchists are anarchists that only suppose.
You need to understand that I am also old, that I see people who claim to be #anarchists as mostly fake, because I've seen so many just talk and talk with no tangible path forward.
It leads to what I call #anarchofatigue, because I hear "when I was young" so often that it wears me out.
That's a bigger threat to #anarchism than the #liberalists ever were, because the phone call is coming from within the house.
To my #American friends, the ones who live in the #USA or #US for short.
Y de fuq are people associating #republicans with #worker plight?
Why is the party of #oligarchy associated with the fight against the #elites when they basically suckle at the teet of elites?
It's because #liberals, born of the #Liberalists, siblings to the #conservatives are happy about the status quo and want to keep it that way.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the liberals in the Dems ARE the enemy.
I hate being called #liberal...
Yeah, I'm pro #LGBTQ, #AntiFascist, #MultiCultural, #metropolitan, #modern and about that #liberty, #democracy and the #PursuitofHappiness...
But fuck being compared to #neoliberal and #conservative people. I'm not apart of the #Liberalists. Bump that.
What do I look like, a typical #oligarchy enjoyer? The #economic equivalent of a #cuckold? No thanks.
What is the #liberal agenda? Same as the #conservative agenda.
Both are born of the #liberalists, who were themselves groomed by barons and the aristocracy, because both wanted to maintain hierarchy in order to keep their power structures, while ousting the #monarchy.
Funnily enough, the monarchy of Norway is largely harmless, even wholesome AND self sustainable, while the liberal and conservative parties of #Norway pose an existential threat to economic and political liberty.
Go figure.
#Liberalism, whether it's slightly to the right or all the way to the right (because liberalism is right-wing) will always rely on FUD and group paranoia, similar to it's parent: nationalism.
Yes, I am saying that liberalism is still inherently #nationalistic and that it's a problem. Liberalists will always go against #socialism, #communism and #anarchism because they are forms of politics that try to instill power to the people.
#Liberalists want the market to decide - or their hierarchy.
Thor A. Hopland