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It seems to me that these four groups reject the enlightenment, reject democracy, reject the rule of law, and reject common morality. Anyone who is allied with Trump has looked the other way or encouraged political corruption, Putinistic spreading of conspiracy theories and generalized lying, intimidation and bullying. The anti-vaccine movement is a case in point: no problem with spreading lies disparaging the effectiveness of vaccines and minimizing the dangers of Covid, as more Republicans died from Covid because they refused to take precautions or get vaccinated. The "Anarcho-Bros worship of male dominance and tolerance for racism just proves my point.

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Funny how the Left version of both populism ( Sanders) and Anarchism ( Kropotkin, mutual aid) are defined out of the picture in the new mainstream Media. I have been saying this is the end of the European Enlightenment for years. Kant's Categorical Imperative is gone, replaced by tribal loyalties. We are heading towards a new Feudalism, with Bezos, Musk and Gates our new lords.

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God bless you.

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Great article ty. Moderate center left here, more and more it seems that I am in lockstep with the sane, and now the rebel wing of the libertarians. People who actually get “classical liberalism”. Tbh I’m sure many of my own tribe are on board these days. Maybe the economic incentives of pretending not to be on the good ship classical liberalism these days is too strong for many of my fellow so called moderates...meanwhile love this breakdown many thanks

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I used to be a classic Liberal. Now I'm labelled a Conservative...but I'm still a classic old school Liberal at heart. So what changed? We CAN NOT solve problems when only one side is convinced they are 100% right on everything and the other side is convinced the other side is 100% wrong on everything. This is statistically impossible. Both sides have their shortcomings. Left brain and right brain need to work together to move the body forward. It's time to start recognizing each other's strengths and working WITH THEM rather than against them. The only way to solve the world's problems is through entanglement of both sides and some concession when someone is wrong.

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Mar 25, 2023
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The Nazis only gained power with the help of German Conservatives. The left refused to have anything to do with them, and, in fact, were sent to the camps after Hitler took power. There were no left wing politicians left in Germany. Putin is a Fascist, Milosovic was a Fascist. None of these people are left wing.

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What's to like, or even to acknowledge, in chirps such as:

"The Nazis only gained power with the help of German Conservatives."

Ever read history?

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The Nazis gained power through the complacency of the opposition. The political party is an irrelevant RED HERRING. We experimented with an unproven drug on millions of people and in THIS case it was THE LIBERALS that pushed it. Not only pushed it, but suppressed the free speech necessary to oppose the idea. We need to step back and see something is very wrong and people's politics are more important than the truth these days. We have entered a Dystopian phase of society and are never going back to 2019 again unless some really big things change and do a U turn. Hard.

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Mar 25, 2023
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We are in an Unprecedentedly stupid age, as you sedes prove with your every utterance.

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