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It is true and no argument is required - just observation of history.

If you examine the history of political philosophy of Liberalism you shall see immediately that Republicans and Democrats are both part of the Liberal Party.

I know some people come to this conclusion by viewing it as a conspiracy but it's really not.

That modern day Democrats are called Liberals causes confusion because from the historical context they are just a subset of Liberals. The older definition includes most Conservatives and Libertarians.

Political philosophy is a family tree. If you go back into the history you find that apparent enemies are more accurately described as competitors.

This is demonstrated in the present each time there is an external threat too.

Communism and Monarchy are both Western political philosophies that reject Liberalism. If you say far right or far left and this group still supports the goals of political Liberalism then you've made a category error.




>If anything, we just need to spend a bit more time talking to folks about the possible side effects of the medications.

What exactly shows us this?

>This is demonstrated in the present each time there is an external threat too.

Can you list some examples?

I'm not trying to be difficult, but this thread is full of assertions and scant on arguments.

I'm genuinely interested, here, but someone has yet to make a substantive argument.




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