20 Jun 2021 9:04 pm
And yet every time you allow people to vote in referendums, they seem to prefer fascist policies lol.Polar1ty » 20 Jun 2021, 8:56 pm » wrote: ↑ Yes, that was a tongue in cheek...regardless it seems modern liberalism is defined by a passing observance/lip service to "democratic" institutions and status quo policies that benefit the oligarchs and ownership class (which liberals claim to oppose but not in reality).
Liberal regimes "manage" social dissent by instigating BLM-type "protests" and allowing ppl to vote for mouthpieces every [X] years.
Liberals ARE the establishment. That is my central thesis.
So I dunno. Is the establishment liberal? It is clearly self aware in its need to suppress the will of the people in order to maintain the liberal paradigm...which already contradicts the paradigm.
There are so many internal contradictions in modern politics, and the web of deciet has grown so large...that I would prefer to frame the situation thusly: liberalism is a thought control device that the current oligarchy uses to manipulate the general public.
It ceased to be a political philosophy that any of the elite believed in good faith following the first world war.