{"id":7833,"date":"2014-07-18T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T11:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/18\/liberalism-coerceive-and-illiberal\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T11:45:04","slug":"liberalism-coerceive-and-illiberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/18\/liberalism-coerceive-and-illiberal\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberalism: Coercive and Illiberal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've been pounding on this drum for years.  I am happy to see that people are coming around.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberalism as an Instrument of Coercion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Liberal War on Liberalism <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Rather than being what it began as, a \u201cnarrowly political strategy for living peacefully in a world of inexorably clashing comprehensive views of reality and the human good,\u201d liberalism has for many become <\/em>that comprehensive view of reality and the human good. Your neighbor\u2019s ideas are no longer different. They are heretical. Liberalism could become the problem that it was intended to solve.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

 Right.  That is why I call for a separation of leftism and state<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I've been pounding on this drum for years.  I am happy to see that people are coming around. Liberalism as an Instrument of Coercion The Liberal War on Liberalism Rather than being what it began as, a \u201cnarrowly political strategy for living peacefully in a world of inexorably clashing comprehensive views of reality and the … Continue reading “Liberalism: Coercive and Illiberal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}