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RE: As Germany Burns, A reply to the comment section.
Classical liberalism has nothing to do with them, obviously they're left wing but but they aren't all the same or even close to each other as the basic ideas of liberalism
So what is liberalism? The opposite of conservatism? Look frankly I don't believe in any political ideas, that includes anarchy, in the end what you will always have are groups of people taking advantage of the other people, and they normally end up winning. By the way thanks for answering, I have been commenting since a few days back and notice hardly anybody answers now.
Well that's the entire point of my articles is too get people talking.
Liberalism at it's base is pretty much what you just described, the freedom to not believe or participate under threat from government, culture, religion etc etc.
The big difference with communism and socialism is that their followers and elected officials push back on those ideas if they don't agree with them, my favorite one at the moment is "hate speech" which in like 90% of the cases just means disagreeing with someone.
The only problem with not having a political ideology or discussing it means you'll be ruled by people who do whatever they want because they know you aren't going to stand up for something.
You saw that in the American election when most of the establishment gave trump a 1% chance to win and he ended up with an electoral landslide victory, it doesn't happen often, but sometimes the people really can force the change they want.