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Originally Posted by Vampyr
What's the irony, exactly?
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I hate that I have to explain this. When a liberal makes a statement that reality has a liberal bias, don't you think that liberal might be biased?
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Whenever I use the statement, I'm referring to the fact that throughout history, conservative ideas have always been the ones to fall to the wayside.
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If "history" is 100 years, then I'd tend to agree with you to a point, and that only depends if you refer to modern liberalism or classical liberalism. If the government promises people something for nothing, I would tend to think people would support such an ideology. JFK was a classical liberal and he believed in individualism and cut taxes. Modern liberals I would call "leftists".
But I would also point out that fascism and communism also fell to the wayside in brutal fashion, both leftist ideals/end points.
If you can say anything about reality is biased, its a centrist bias, as we have continually fluctuated between left and right concepts once going to far to either side becomes uncomfortable/intolerable; a constant search for that mythical happy medium. Most people don't like either leftist or conservative ideology in total, and I think that's a good thing. Centrism is probably the only thing that prevents out Republic from turning into a totalitarian state.