Schrödinger's PratIf a giant flaming meteor was coming to wipe out all life on earth and, through some magical convoluted and utterly insane mechanism, the only way to stop it was for everyone on earth to buy one fewer sock each year, we'd be instantly flooded with thousands of people proudly bragging on the Internet about how they're now going to buy hundreds of socks *right now* because the libs can't tell them what to do.
Richard Michael Blaber@Rhodium103 Er... the whole point of liberalism is that liberals believe people should be free to do whatever they want, provided it doesn't hurt others. At least that's the original - & European - definition of the word. Americans got rather confused about what it meant. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism.
Oblomovthere was a classic cartoon by, IIRC, Gary Larson about the drift in the meaning of the word liberal
Joe W@oblomov @rmblaber1956 @Rhodium103 There's also the saying about the US having a conservative party - and a reactionary one...