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minus-squarebrianary@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoDo you consider Kamala Harris a liberal?
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·6 months agoOf course she is - unless you want to show me some evidence that she won’t uphold capitalism and colonialism if given half the chance.
minus-squarebrianary@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoThat is circular reasoning, it’s not the actual definition of “liberal”, even if it is the functional definition of “Democrat”.
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·6 months agoI don’t want to know how thoroughly brainwashed you have to be to conflate democracy with utterly anti-democratic concepts such as capitalism and colonialism, but my guess would be… pretty much totally.
minus-squarebrianary@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoThey see it as pragmatism, I think.
Do you consider Kamala Harris a liberal?
Of course she is - unless you want to show me some evidence that she won’t uphold capitalism and colonialism if given half the chance.
That is circular reasoning, it’s not the actual definition of “liberal”, even if it is the functional definition of “Democrat”.
I don’t want to know how thoroughly brainwashed you have to be to conflate democracy with utterly anti-democratic concepts such as capitalism and colonialism, but my guess would be… pretty much totally.
They see it as pragmatism, I think.