What really frighten me is that people no longer know what "liberalism" is. Among the uneducated public, it's been warped to mean "left-wing". Among the educated, it means tolerance, individual rights, rule-of-law, democracy -- the blueprint for how western society's work. It's like sportsball: different teams fight to win the game (where political parties are the teams), but "liberalism" is the rules of the game.
Internationally, Russian and China are the major threat to liberalism. Domestically, it's wokism and Trumpism. Woke Marxism dominates college campuses to a toxic extent. Trump appeals to the most ignorant and brutal of our society.
Liberalism is what the never-woke and never-trump centrist people fight to defend. But we can't even have a simple conversation about it because for some reasons, civics classes in high school have stopped teaching "liberalism".
Just 25 years ago, liberalism was the world's dominant ideology.
Now, in 2024, it's on the run everywhere, pushed underground by a combination of 21st century technology and the power of the Chinese Communist Party.
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