> The lesson is that people shouldn’t have to settle for things because they don’t have a choice. In anything. Work, relationships, health, food. The original liberalist philosophers argued that if one is constrained by lack of available choice, then they are not truly free at all, and that true liberty requires equality for this reasons. That’s why I say neoliberalism isn’t even liberalism. Maybe call it pseudo-liberalism. In any case, it’s a conservative economic policy. True liberalism is a humanist political philosophy. People who don’t know anything about it look at me like I’m crazy whenever I say that. “Hurr durr, ‘liberal’ is in the name.” You know when fascists and tankies agree on hating something, then it must be doing something right. Also, when tankies curse “liberals,” they’re talking specifically about neoliberals, so it’s really a misnomer. Funny enough, when fascists curse “liberals,” they’re talking about Marxist-Leninists (who obviously are not liberals). So it’s like actual liberals are caught between these two extremist camps, and both sides view them as the other side because they can’t see through this false dichotomy and anti-nuance campist polarization. So obviously to tankies, liberals must be fascists; and to fascists, liberals must be commies. And liberals are just like, “We’re neither. You’re both assholes.”