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      Liberalism can claim to stand for whatever, it’s still a fact that liberal governments participated in wars, invasions, regime change operations, economic warfare, genocide.

      Liberalism obscures the systemic nature of problems by focusing on and promoting Individualist ideals. The reason liberalism is in crisis is that it doesn’t work, not that it’s not implemented correctly.

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      It’s fun watching you define liberalism out of existence. You’ve already made it so the Democrats and their supporters aren’t liberal by your own definition

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      My formative childhood years were spent listening to “good, non-bigoted” liberals talk about “killing terrorists” who “hate democracy” because of their “tribal culture”.

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          No, the Republicans were simply repeating the phrase “glass the middle east” with their eyes rolled back in ecstasy. Compared to that, the Victorian-era racism of liberals trying to bring civilization spread democracy got a pass for sounding slightly less hitlerian. This dynamic may sound familiar