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‘Liberal’ has become a term of derision in US politics – the historical reasons are complicated
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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Are you referring to the regime of Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, or Netherlands?
What do you think?
I think you're making am assumption based on a one or two liberal countries and extrapolating that to a larger bunch of countries where your assumption doesn't hold.
Prior to the twentieth century, are you willing to stand by the human rights record of all (but one or two) liberal countries? Are you even willing to do that today?
No.
Are you? And why is the question relevant?
Ok. Have fun playing dumb, but I'm not going to keep responding to it
Haha, that looks funny in the eyes of anyone who understands the subject.
But okay. I believe that regardless of how many questions I pose in order to find out if your case makes any semblance of sense, I won't find out whether it does.
I'll just assume you are clueless without noticing it yourself. That's okay.