Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Liberal vs Neoliberal: Confusing Political Terminology Explained" video.

  1. AUSTRALIAN HERE: Thom you are wrong on where the Australian Liberal party is on the political spectrum. They ARE NOT far Right but Centre right. However they have been steadily moving to the right for the last 25years or so. Economically speaking they are almost identical to America's Democrats. The National party of Australia which forms the junior partner of the Liberal-National Coalition is further to the right and is closer to the rural conservatives of the American Republican Party. In recent years we have had some smaller parties emerge that are VERY FAR Right like Clive Palmer's United Australia Party which is just one of its names. Clive is like Trump a billionaire of dubious means and with questionable business practices. Clive's ideology is almost identical to people like Charles Koch and his Party is similar to the American Tea Party. FYI - I went to college in America and even though I did engineering I am reasonably familiar with the differences between the American Liberals and American Libertarians. The way I would describe that difference is as an outsider looking in is: American Liberals believe that individual Liberty is best defended by a healthy set of regulations and laws upheld by a functioning court system and effective government so that no individual can be stripped of their basic rights by another person or a corporate entity and that they can get restitution through the courts from injury. American Libertarians believe that individual Liberty is best defended by removing any and all controls the government has except the protection of the state from foreigner nations, the protection of individual property through the police and that the main purpose of the courts is to uphold contracts. That was expressed by Milton Friedman many times.
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