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I think we are using words that are untenable and useless to catagorize modern political thought. Conservative, from my knowledge, dates back to the advent of modern democracy, it was applied to the thinkers who wished to keep the monarchs in power, and to prevent the rise of democracy. Liberalism's...
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Humans, like other primates, are communal. Our ancestors spent almost all of their evolutionary history as humans living in small groups of interdependent individuals. At the same time, tribes were in competition for each other for natural resources: foraging grounds, hunting grounds, agricultural lands...
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[quote user="DBratton"]The combination of free trade and non-interventionism used to be called liberalism and technically that's still correct. [/quote] I agree, and believe I share the sentiment of many here in wishing that we could reclaim liberalism. Perhaps the move of the mainstream...