20 Jun 2021 7:30 pm
I guess I could say, lol, that you are walking a fine line here between the no true Scotsman fallacy and the argument from popularity fallacy.Polar1ty » 20 Jun 2021, 7:12 pm » wrote: ↑ Then your argument is that more people would support fascism/fascism-lite if it wasn't made into the f word of politics, which is different from people who argue that (subset) isn't liberal because (reasons).
In fact your argument implies that people who oppose the current system CANNOT be liberals or were fooled into supporting liberalism while holding views contradictory to liberalism cuz ppl are stupid/gullible.
Like no...let's not commit either fallacy. Liberalism should be defined by is philosophical priors. 'government is bad' is indeed one of those priors.