BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 4 months agoStop resisting like the liberals say.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up11.23Karrow-down135
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minus-squarebrianary@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 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-down1·4 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-up1·4 months agoThey see it as pragmatism, I think.
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.