Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "How The Left DESTROYED Liberalism" video.
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When liberalism attached itself to massive government intervention in society and the economy, it ceased being liberalism and became reactionary. He thinks this woke nonsense is something separate, but it's part and parcel of the choice to make the government the source of people's well-being, rather than as an obstacle to people's well-being, which the original liberals understood.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt took us across the philosophical Rubicon, and it's been downhill ever since.
Classical liberalism is liberty and limited government. These faux, big-government liberals, refuse to examine their base assumptions, and how their assumptions when implemented as policy, created the woke insanity we see, now. People who are entitled to government largesse are serfs. They just don't know it.
Schellenberger thinks he's a classical liberal, but he's a big-government liberal, and therefore not liberal.
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