I’m old enough to remember republicans used to take pride in calling themselves “fiscal conservatives but socially liberal” and “party of personal liberty”
Now they want to regulate women’s periods and children’s math textbook for “wokeism”
Wasn’t that effectively the Libertarian motto for a bit? When they weren’t veering down some insane tangent that they all picked up on on that particular year?
Something like that. I am paraphrasing but “personal freedom and personal responsibility” was the idea that really resonated with me in my more conservative past, before I realized that this only works if you simultaneously accept the narrowest interpretation of personal freedom and the broadest interpretation of personal responsibility.
I’m old enough to remember republicans used to take pride in calling themselves “fiscal conservatives but socially liberal” and “party of personal liberty”
Now they want to regulate women’s periods and children’s math textbook for “wokeism”
Wasn’t that effectively the Libertarian motto for a bit? When they weren’t veering down some insane tangent that they all picked up on on that particular year?
Something like that. I am paraphrasing but “personal freedom and personal responsibility” was the idea that really resonated with me in my more conservative past, before I realized that this only works if you simultaneously accept the narrowest interpretation of personal freedom and the broadest interpretation of personal responsibility.