Message from @Jym
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but this got me thinking: dankula considers himself a libertarian, but would you? Or is he also a "classic liberal"?
I mean, if you can draw circles, that would actually be pretty helpful. Because at least for me this "spectrum" is more or less turning into a complete mush of labels.
it's not a spectrum
You can be both
It's an overlap
Conservative, in the US context, *is* liberal. Because the only political tradition to 'conserve' here is classical liberalism from the enlightenment.
Correct
It is a spectrum, but in more than two directions.
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'murricans don't have the old fashioned crown-loyalist conservatives
Also yes
what with not being a monarchy
We do get idealistic about our founders though
Who doesn’t?
your founders also weren't as inbred as some of the royal families here <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>
Hapsburg shmapsburg
One was a poor urchin
Like, if an American is a hard-core conservative they want a constitutional republic. Which is kind of a liberal position. Perversely a hard-core liberal wants socialism which isn't very liberal at all.
Right.
how bad is the inbreeding in the UK?
Conservatives also tend to be more practical and pragmatic I think.
the terminology in the US is also kind of wonky, compared to the rest of the world
Yah
You bunch hardcore socialists together with some shades of classical liberals
They kick the liberals out lol
Classical Liberals have basically fled to the Comservatives for support in America, because they aren't actually too dissimilar from Conservatives.
I hear Classical Liberals are called British Liberals in the US 🤷🏿
strange that
Never heard of that Broo
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I dunno
We forget you ever existed, let alone you have politics.
but we invented it
And we don't care, you have done WHAT with it?
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We got called Racist
without them, you'd all be speaking french or spanish <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>
consider yourselves fortunate
You made a great idea, then forgot to implement it permanently.