Hint: it isn’t American conservatism or American modern liberalism!

Source: https://www.queerty.com/jeffree-star-slams-non-binary-people-pronouns-latest-bid-attention-20230217?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jeffree-star-slams-non-binary-people-pronouns-latest-bid-attention

How liberalism sabotaged itself: Are Cold War intellectuals to blame?

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/09/17/how-liberalism-sabotaged-itself-are-cold-intellectuals-to-blame/

“If people can’t realise their aspiration to buy and own their own home, they’re unlikely to have much faith in liberalism.

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/hard-right-figure-teena-mcqueen-blocked-from-liberal-party-s-federal-executive-20230617-p5dhc1.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Liberals of the older variety were, and are, even open to debating liberalism itself.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/03/12/cancel-culture-will-rule-higher-ed-until-theres-diversity-in-thought/

Might liberalism and democracy be, at bottom, matters of choice within an equitable society?

Source: https://www.libdemvoice.org/liberalism-the-delicate-balances-between-democracy-and-market-capitalism-between-freedom-and-solidarity-72808.html

Most of these local leaders are proud Democrats who view cities as laboratories for liberalism rather than as havens for opportunity and free enterprise.

Source: https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/09/23/shocker-big-city-mayor-switches-from-democrat-to-republican-n579872

"On the subject of paragraph four, in my opinion Comrade Lenin himself 'hurried' a little…There is hardly a doubt that his 'hurriedness' will supply fuel to the advocates of 'independence', to the detriment of the national liberalism of Lenin."

Source: http://www.marxist.com/lenins-last-struggle.htm

Perhaps because their liberalism is just its own form of veiled classism.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1240659/in-succession-season-4-the-pierces-are-a-different-kind-of-evil/

The Marxist response has long been that liberalism is the ethos of capitalism written as a theory of ‘the world.’

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/27/capitalism-is-antithetical-to-democracy/

The northern Yiron kibbutz highlights how the country has evolved since its creation on May 14, 1948, as the socialist ideals of some of the founding fathers have given way to greater economic liberalism, and a more multicultural society.

Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/05/75-israeli-society-faces-sharpening-divisions

The report cites NBC News polling from 2022, which found that Generation Z favors liberalism over conservatism by a 48-33 margin.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/31/report-high-school-boys-trending-conservative/

The state’s flagship university will also eliminate diversity statements for incoming students and fundraise for a new campus leadership position focused on things like “conservative political thought, classical economic theory or classical liberalism.”

Source: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2023/12/15/vos-says-uw-deal-is-first-step-to-end-cancerous-diversity-practices/

This newfound emotion is grounded in a considered and mature civic-mindedness, and an understanding—now all the more profound—of the spirit of democracy, liberalism, equality, and freedom.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-democracy-rule-of-law/673469/?utm_source=feed

True liberalism started in 1972 under Gough Whitlam.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/a-no-to-more-prime-ministerial-vaudeville-20230410-p5cze0.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

“Woke” or “wokeness” refers to a school of social and cultural liberalism that has become the dominant discourse in left-of-center spaces in American intellectual life.

Source: https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/03/16/freddie-deboer-quit-pretending-you-dont-know-what-woke-means-plus-zebras-n537494

Yet just a few years later, Cold War liberalism emerged as a rejection of the optimism that flourished before the mid-20th century’s crises.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/opinion/liberalism-trump-russia-china-cold-war.html