A Guide to American Liberalism

An overview of American liberalism, from the classical liberal period all the way to contemporary politics.
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0:00 Intro
1:31 Classical Liberalism
11:15 Liberal Democracy
10:52 Modern Liberalism
20:04 21st Century Liberalism
Sources:
On Liberty: John Stuart Mill - amzn.to/3HBLhHz
The Constitution Of Liberty: Friedrich Hayek - amzn.to/3WN5Sgx
A Theory Of Justice: John Rawls - amzn.to/3Y90zt0
Am I A Liberal?: John Maynard Keynes
The End Of Laissez-Faire: John Maynard Keynes
The Good Society: Walter Lippmann - amzn.to/3kTebu1
Liberalism: Leonard Hobhouse - amzn.to/3HgR7ge
Democracy In America: Alexis de Tocqueville - amzn.to/40961xE
Capitalism & Freedom: Milton Friedman - amzn.to/3RhQJT2
Liberalism: Ludwig Von Mises - amzn.to/3wE8sL2
Liberalism: Edmund Fawcett - amzn.to/3wF7RZK
The End Of Reform: Alan Brinkley - amzn.to/3Dnvb1I
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[@hitchwagster]

Wow. I had forgotten what politically neutral content looks like!

[@peanuttasty247]

Centrist does not mean politically neutral; those who say they do not have an ideology are just unable to see it. Being politically neutral still means working within the current overarching ideologies. I'm not saying this is bad, as everyone has a bias, but we shouldn't fool ourselves. This is still his perspective and morphed by his beliefs/ideology. Do your own additional research as well.

[@the99throgue25]

@@peanuttasty247 where did you say anything about centrist? He just siad he likes how neutral the video is when comes to informing people about political philosophy? Which for informational content is pretty much required to not be seen as a propagandistic.

[@cosettapessa6417]

@@peanuttasty247 off topic.

[@rocketman7401]

@@peanuttasty247 best party in the states 🥳. Unfortunately undermined by red and blue.

[@patrickmullane30]

Centrist is in the context a synonym for neutral- don’t argue stupidity

[@rhondamiller5166]

“We can’t let terms degenerate into meaninglessness and incoherency.” So well put! I’m glad that I’m not the only one who thinks this.

[@captainmaim]

progressives and post-modernists will fight tooth and nail on that, LOL! This was an excellent video.

[@scambammer6102]

He says, while demonstrating that the word "liberal" has numerous meanings, some of which are inconsistent.

[@stephenbrookes7268]

There are many of us, we just are not shouting about it cos it is not rebellious or controvercial.

[@dyfrigshandy]

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[@ahogammer6895]

the terms "democrat" & "republicans" in the us, have completely lost their original meanings.

[@realJimMarshall]

Shout out to this guy for bringing left, right, center, independent, etc here to get a non bias explanation on terms so we can get a better understanding of terms being thrown around. This guy does his research and is fair and balanced which is like a cold drink of water in these hot times.

[@elspoocho4637]

Which guy?

[@stoicazoo7845]

@@elspoocho4637 I don't see many. Are you having a stroke?

[@seanleith5312]

American Conservatives are true liberals, American Liberals are wacko Marxists.

[@elspoocho4637]

@@stoicazoo7845 Not really, clarify your point of view, because it makes 0 sense.

[@stoicazoo7845]

@@elspoocho4637 Clarify yours first. What were you asking for and why.

[@sststr]

I have this book from 1961 entitled "Europe Since 1815" by Gordon A. Craig; in the introduction to Part Three, covering 1871 to 1914, pages 260 and 261: "Back in the 1850s, and even in the 1870s, it was possible for an intelligent man to subscribe to all the creeds of liberalism - individualism, competition, laissez faire, suspicion of big government, and the like - without feeling any inconsistency. By the 1880s this was no longer easy. The prevailing economic tendencies seemed to favor, not individualism and competition, but combination, for this was the age of trusts, monopolies and cartels. Industrialists who, in an earlier age, would have insisted that the government stay out of business now argued that it was the duty of government to support it by tariffs, subventions, convenient corporation laws, the acquisition of new markets in colonial areas, and the like. They not infrequently sought political support for their new ideas from parties of the Right which, because they had traditionally believed in a strong active government, were more open to these ideas than the Liberal parties; and this explains both the transformation of the Conservative parties into parties of big business (or, as in Germany, into allies of heavy industry) and the waning strength of Liberal Parties. "Simultaneously, men whose liberalism centered around a sincere belief in the necessity of protecting the individual from arbitrary power and who, for that very reason, believed in laissez faire and opposed the growth of government functions began to suspect that the real threat to the individual was the tendency toward combination in business and that only the government could protect the individual, by regulating the operations of the great economic combines. These men, when their new belief proved unpopular with their former political associates, were apt to turn to the new labor parties which did believe in government regulation, with another resultant loss to the Liberal center. This latter tendency is shown clearly in the career of John Stuart Mill; in his classic Essay on Liberty (1859) he still regarded strong government as a threat to the free individual, but by the end of his life he was drifting rapidly in the direction of socialism. "The economic tendencies of the time, then, by forcing men to revise their views on the role of government, inevitably weakened the persuasiveness of the creeds of liberalism and the strength of the Liberal parties. This in turn encouraged two things: on the one hand, a polarization of politics, a division into extremes, which was the inevitable result of the decline of the moderate parties of the middle, and was to reach its most dangerous form in the twentieth century; and, on the other, a growing acceptance of big government, the welfare state, and collectivism in general."

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[@kennethkho7165]

@@JH-ji6cj exactly!

[@myheartiswriting]

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[@Philusteen]

Pretty sure this book was from the early 70's....

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[@kallashnykov]

By listening to non factual western centered superficial political science commentary?

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[@billplaney2585]

@@kallashnykov If you believe that any book isn't just a sustained argument for an idea, rather than a recipe for how you should live, you don't understand what books and ideas are. If his video inspired others to dig deeper or not rely on pat answers for everything, he was wildly successful. In this regard, your comment is like criticizing a tomato for not being onion-enough.

[@kallashnykov]

@@billplaney2585 I wish this channel inspired people to dig deeper and not spread misleading, misinformed and colonial centered propaganda information about politics.

[@TheCh1212]

Thoughtful. Fair. Nuanced. Unpretentious. Undramatic. Very helpful. We need more of these type of videos among the popular political KZbin sphere.

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Ryan Chapman has lots and lots of these videos. They mostly fit your criteria. Unfortunately, he is the only one doing this that I know of.

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[@KhaoticDeterminism]

hear us out… they don’t exist there’s a 1 party system and the democrats just lie would explain a bit… 🤔 also why Putin would buy Trump god that man has made life entertaining 🍿 a spy most majestic legit just promotes Russia and creates instability 🙏🏻 #2Spirit #indigenous #philosophy

[@kendallmay7977]

Ryan has been coming across my feed for the last couple of days. I’m ashamed to say I judged a book by its cover. I’m glad I gave him a chance. Honest and objective content has been missing from this country for some time. Thank you Ryan for putting “it is what it is“ back into content.

[@warrenwhite9085]

The guy evaded, glossed over the fundamentals. I think he knows them but you can see the fear of backlash/canceling in his eyes when he gets near truths. He didn’t even mention Marxism, the central tenet of modern liberalism. Modern liberalism is fascist, uses unlimited, centralized government to force its will on the economy & culture, via regulation, DOJ/FBI police state selective persecution, censorship by collusion with media.. anything libs don’t like is ‘hate speech’, ‘terrorist’, etc. Classic liberals, libertarians & conservatives are now the same & against the modern libs/progressives/Marxists cult who use government, media, big tech, academia as tools to oppress. Wokeness is a cancer.

[@Magneticvortex-kk4gb]

What you on about and who made you the judge of book covers?

[@ChicagoFires]

Conservatives like to call everyone a liberal, and use it as a slur. They make it hard for me to understand what a liberal actually is. So thank you for this video!

[@mbdg6810]

I’m a conservative that also feels this way of other conservatives. I always knew there was a difference, it was just hard to use a separate term for what are “modern liberals” like this video describes. So i say classical liberals for people who uphold traditional liberal values. (And usually leftist for todays pro-big government liberals)

[@chazcmeekins83]

​@@mbdg6810 If big-government is your definition of "Leftism" then you are surely mistaken.

[@JayPot-bf9dm]

Wait a minute today’s Democrat party uses name-calling propaganda all the time. You literally just did it.. heading for Fascism that’s a fact.

[@robmx2324]

Liberals love big government. Obama said liberals need big government to tell them what to do. Because big government is smarter than them. Big government can supply the masses with everything they need to live. Long live the liberal empire?

[@chicanohek]

It’s their propaganda, it works

[@deathofanotion]

Congrats on your monetization! Great video & topic, as usual.

[@realryanchapman]

Thanks! And glad to see you're still around. I feel like you've been here since day one.

[@deathofanotion]

@@realryanchapman Yes I have! Top 300, if I recall.

[@zo1dberg]

@@realryanchapman Great work and well deserved. I just found you yesterday from a link by James Lindsay on your CRT video and you sound like a brilliant man with an amazing ability to lay things out in layman terms, which is really needed. Keep at it and I hope you reach a million subs very soon.

[@zo1dberg]

@@realryanchapman Actually, it was your IdPol video. Getting confused now that I'm going through your back catalogue :)

[@michaelreynolds8204]

@@zo1dberg I’m an African-American conservative and he just gives me peace after listening to him

[@kevin43353]

In all of KZbin I’ve never been this grateful to find a channel

[@DerekKwan]

Holy cow - this and your other videos are super helpful and informative. There's a serious dearth of concise, distilled, information available that isn't filtered or slanted with biased agenda these days. Even less that provides quotation, citation and attribution. Thanks for your work, Ryan!

[@hazelelloyd]

Ryan is super easy to understand and relate to, he vocalizes a lot of the things I've never been able to relate to simply. I love his coherent tone and almost visibly unbiased and scholarly approach to these subjects!!

[@alexkats30]

I appreciate your encyclopedic presentation of these terms and ideologies. Problem is, in the real world, politics, parties and business interests often pervert them or use their terminology to achieve their goals which can often be different or downright antithetical to it

[@max_mittler]

manipulation of language is core to all politics. Since the beginning, politics has taken advantage of language, the emotional weight of certain words, and their associated meanings.

[@pierrelabounty9917]

That's right and that's how politicians and parties should define themselves before they speak and get a paycheck, truth matters

[@joejones9520]

The normal US citizen, regardless of party affiliation, is a liberal conservative, however, the word "liberal" has been hijacked to mean a crazed commie leftist BUT the word "conservative" has also been hijacked to mean a crazed gun-nut, religious uneducated person so people end up having to choose which false stereotype they want to ID with and neglect their real feelings in favor of not embarrassing themselves in front of their work and/or social circle.

[@josehawking5293]

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🧸Soviet Communism, a German dialectic materializing into a monastic 🕯️corporation that puppeteered the collective with 🥖 bread, 🎏 spectacle and 🪑other means. An obtusely 🗄 orthodox oligarchy, and -
🍎American £ibertarianism, 🌱 sprung from the Magna Carta as a belief in private property without government 🏛 oversight, within a framework of laws gravitating invariably towards individual liberty.
Before being captivated by the 🦋🌻Great Society dialectic, its corporatization and subsequent foundational erosion of the 🏛️ Republic itself. This neo-dialectical putsch will inexorably punctuate into" 🐿️
"🎏🗿 Cultural Anarchism, a dialectic catalyzing 🏚️ deconstruction through the 👁 metaphysics" 🗿 🧃🧃 🧃 "Juice Drinks!"🎏🐀 📻🌻🐛🌻🦋 "of collective narcissism!" 🐿️ 🐀🛹🌻 "And/or-
🪖🐿️ Cultural Nationalism, a dialectic catalyzed 🥁🐓 to 👑crown 🍔McChrist through the 👁 metaphysics of collective retribution!," 🗿 "Or-
total 🌎 ecological catastrophage!" 🦝 📻 "iz what i'iz" ☕️🐿 ☕️🐀 🧸🌻 "Humpty didn't." 🍳🐓⛺️

[@StratenSchemel]

I've been saying Liberalism is Conservativism for years now. Eyeing opening to see that my perception simply did not have the right terminology being applied to what I am observing. Love your channel. Excited that you can now monotize.

[@dustinb1275]

Same. And I would actually still maintain that stance because the majority of people who identify as conservative think more like the liberal right, even if they hold some conservative values. Or at least that's my perception.

[@StratenSchemel]

@@dustinb1275 I think within my social circles the conservatives are hard to mistake for progressives. Mainly due to their religious beliefs and/or their desire to conserve the "old way." But I can think of a few examples where the progressives in my life fall more inline with the conservative capitalist. The again what do I know? It's all so confusing to fully understand to where you don't feel like a complete idiot.

[@yoshyusmc]

I think the Republican party needs to drift a little to more a Social Conservatism, where we embrace the liberal ideology of "gay marriage and a compromise on abortion" and get rid of the communist/socialist left that have infected the DNC. However the GOP are so inept and put self interest first that it lets the DNC walk all over it. So yeah I miss the times where the biggest debate was how much the budget was and what we were putting our tax dollars towards.

[@jefrreyjeffery2192]

No. Liberals are all for abortion rights, drug rights, homosexual and trans rights. Conservatives are not. Period

[@DrCruel]

It's easier to understand the political divide if you assume there are liberals and conservatives, libertarians and big government activists, and then assume a separate class of professional seditionists who are professional liars and hypocrites, who have a meaningless nonsensical ideology, and who are solely concerned with seizing power and making themselves rich. This is what we think of today as the progressive Left and what I would call Left fascists.

[@gyibacao3497]

I'm from China & thank you for this amazing introduction. The political debate in quality liberal democracies (i.e. the west) is distracted with polarized differences domestically and is eroded by oversimplified slogans & geopolitical zero-sum game externally. Maximizing personal liberty under the condition of preserving basic social cohesion & functions & with a balance for equity should be a political philosophy that appeals to the overwhelming majority of Chinese. Yet unfortunately, it is now sold as a cheap political religion (one has to comply without question or scrutiny or risking being punished) & abused as an ideological weapon for geopolitical gains. A huge shame and a big loss for both sides...

[@alexandercarroll9707]

Just curious, is it safe for you to be commenting this?

[@sirbean5563]

well written

[@michaelqdlap]

@@alexandercarroll9707 As far as I know, using a VPN to 'climb over the wall' is fairly tolerated

[@josephcoon5809]

So, your first problem was putting conflicting ideas into the same phrase: Liberal = freedom Democracy = tyranny

[@michaelqdlap]

@Smoovie119 All of the Chines people I know seem casual about using VPNs back home

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

It’s frustrating how few people acknowledge that both major political factions in America are liberal, they only differ on how they interpret equality and freedom and how to best maximize them.

[@zacharytuttle5618]

At what point does it become a new ideology? You can only twist interpretation so far.

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

@@zacharytuttle5618 It’s like different denominations of a religion. They agree on the major stuff but can differ significantly on the minor stuff. Both parties agree on the general principles of classical liberalism. Equality under the law, separation of powers, republicanism (the government type, not the party), liberty and freedom. The differences appear when each side states what they believe freedom and equality to mean. The American right will interpret freedom to mean freedom from over reaching government, whereas the American left will interpret freedom to mean freedom from poverty and want. The American right will interpret equality as meaning everyone is treated equally under the law and should be left to succeed or fail on their own merits. The American left will interpret equality as meaning everyone being guaranteed a certain standard of living and laws being made to address past injustices in certain communities. Actual conservatism and actual leftism doesn’t really exist in America. The founders wouldn’t have considered themselves conservative because in their time conservatism meant monarchism and support for aristocracy.

[@etrs]

That sounds a little generous.

[@zacharytuttle5618]

@@TheNightWatcher1385 yeah those values are so vague and commonly held its like the difference between Islam and Christianity and saying they're the same cause they both believe in a deity. I think most Europeans would also say they hold those values but they have blatantly different political thought and systems. If you're point is that the meaning of words and political parties drift then yeah of course.

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

@@zacharytuttle5618 I disagree. The modern political parties of America are descended from the same intellectual tradition. Islam and Christianity are not. Despite sharing a deity, their perception of that deity’s nature and their day to day values are too different to be considered simply an offshoot of a main shared spiritual strain.

[@leehayes4019]

This may be one of your best video essays. Very well done and keep up the good work!

[@feffygracie]

I've been seeking a channel that explains CRT and other ideology clearly. Thanks

[@yoshyusmc]

Yes! Ryan explains in such a clear, concise and unbiased way. The things he is explaining is something I understood but could never explain in the same way.

[@Perditions]

@@yoshyusmc wow! I'll have to check that out and see how much it differs from my own understanding.

[@Dodginbulletzz]

Ryan, thank you so much for taking time to create and share these videos!

[@megapangolin1093]

Cracking video with a spellbinding, intelligent delivery with fine prose and cadence. These all make listening to a complex subject so much easier and more rewarding. I am very pleased that your subscribers and listeners are getting on board and that you can better monetise your channel. Listening to your videos is close to meditation. Thank you.

[@R33lyfast]

Happy to support! Keep up the good work!

[@jimmerskrimmerfriddet3246]

Great work as usual. I love your approach and style.

[@maxwindhagen]

The best four-quadrant categorization of major political streams I have seen in a long time. Keep up the great work!

[@skshum]

This is pretty much one of the channels I do respect from the Western media nowadays. Hope I would find more people in youtube like Mr. Chapman here. Thank you.

[@user-tz6xl4yb4n]

Thank you for your videos! They are highly informative and a real joy to watch. If I can offer you one suggestion is that there are times I need to rewind because the information is a bit esoteric. Some of the concepts need to be unpacked a little more than you are unpacking them. And, some of your unpacking is spot-on. I wasn't a poli-sci major in college but am interested in learning more. I have purchased books based on your recommendation. The two I am reading today have to do with your video on fascism.

[@coreyamory3019]

I truly respect everything you do. Your knowledge and findings have given me a better understanding on many different political spectrums.

[@Portergetmybag]

So glad I found your channel! The only channel I slow down from 2.0 to 1.5 to understand.

[@user-bu6zk2on9v]

Man,you are doing such a good content!

[@murdockhancock1660]

I think ludwig von mises was right when he said modern liberals are "moderate" socialists redistributing someone's wealth that you've already taxed and redistributed is not a liberal thing

[@m_b_lmackenzie4510]

I love your clarity and impartiality.

[@khemarandinh3488]

Very fair analysis Ryan. Keep up the good work

[@Shakez76]

Excellent work Ryan! Bumped into your channel. Looking forward to more.

[@michaelreynolds8204]

He is amazing

[@realryanchapman]

Thank you to everyone who supports these projects on Patreon. I wouldn't be able to devote so much time and so many resources to one video otherwise. I'm trying to make the best work I can, and the donations really do make it possible. If you'd like to chip in and support me, check out www.patreon.com/rchapman. Notes: I know I put 'liberal right' on the left side of the screen and 'liberal left' on the right. If I flipped it, then 'laissez-faire' would have been on the right of the screen and 'intervention' on the left. I thought the rule of screen direction (reading from left to right) meant having conservative opinions on the left of the screen and progressive opinions on the right felt more natural, so I decided that what I did was the least awkward of my options.

[@pacefactor]

There is some subtle poetry to it as well, you should own it.

[@toomim]

I came here to complain about just this. :) Luckily, you addressed it for me. :)

[@walterburger5281]

How about the term "Libtard", where does that fall in the definitions?

[@robertomartinez8966]

Hi Ryan, I'm wondering in which sense Keynes should be considered a Liberal, it always seem to me more like he was a Socialist, in the sense that he supported the idea of Gov overspending as a means to achieve prosperity, and of course such spending only would be achieved through expropriating private property from individuals (aka taxes).

[@travcollier]

Pretty good video. Liberalism... the "it's complicated" of political philosophy ;) At the end, I really wish you would have recommended "The Open Society and Its Enemies" by Karl Popper Would have also been nice if you mentioned the importance to liberalism of having power vested in multiple systems, aka "checks and balances". Oh, and I realize I'm a year late, but I would love to see a similar video on progressivism. From my POV, liberalism embodies individual centered freedom and the Enlightenment concept of systems which improve/adapt over time (that marketplace of ideas thing, well-functioning economic markets, and how science science works). That's literally progressive, but I'm pretty sure that isn't quite what progressive means in political philosophy terms.

[@iamtobler]

Perfect bro! You are so good at explaining these things, and I wish everyone in the country could see this video...

[@iaindobby5345]

Ryan, Thankyou: I’m English and always having to transpose English politicolinguistics into American and visa verse. So this helped to calibrate for me. How I would classify my politics is often difficult when I’m communicating because, as you said here, a liberal attempts to accommodate some liberal right thoughts and can also stretch into progressive liberal territory. It often makes things difficult for those who are more ideologically constrained and often leaves me trying to figure where I am on the political spectrum. Maybe that is what makes me, overall, a liberal !! I hope your down to earth approach is rewarded with a growing channel. My best wishes for you going forward

[@allanthomas6097]

So basically "liberalism in canada is not even close to classical liberals

[@manderse12]

I've been doing a deep dive into your videos, Ryan, and I continue to be so impressed with your work. This channel is an excellent educational resource. I'd be curious to hear from you down the road in some kind of "The Feedback I've Heard" video that summarizes the main criticisms of your more popular video essays (especially those that you feel may have some merit, in retrospect, as well as those voices that annoyingly misrepresented your analyses). I don't know if such a video would be helpful for you or other viewers, but I think it would add tremendously to your credibility. (Not that I think you have much to worry about. Generally, your channel is one of the few on KZbin doing political, historical and cultural analysis that strives to be as fair-minded and balanced as possible. For that reason especially, as I've mentioned in a previous comment, I feel comfortable sharing your videos with our MS ? HS Philosophy Club.) Bravo.

[@realryanchapman]

Hi, thanks again and that's an interesting idea for a video. Whenever I release these videos I picture getting a mountain of criticism, but so far I've seen surprisingly little, so I've been able to respond directly in the comments section to any halfway decent criticism that I see. There was one case where after sitting on a comment for a while I decided to take a video down entirely, not because I had anything necessarily wrong, but because it made me realize I had missed an area of research, making my argument conceptually misshapen. But so far comments like that have been rare. The channel is still in its early stages, so I imagine if it finds a bigger audience I'll get more robust criticism and I could see making a feedback video at that point. We'll see!

[@josehawking5293]

A New Dialectic "A New 🎟🎟 🎟 Deal, germinating nearly a century prior, expended public 🥽🐿 works while placing checks and balances on 🗒️🗿 capital markets through a politically punctuating dynamism," 🐀 "and the voters 🐿💀🗿🐓 apex 🗳between -
🧸Soviet Communism, a German dialectic materializing into a monastic 🕯️corporation that puppeteered the collective with 🥖 bread, 🎏 spectacle and 🪑other means. An obtusely 🗄 orthodox oligarchy, and -
🍎American £ibertarianism, 🌱 sprung from the Magna Carta as a belief in private property without government 🏛 oversight, within a framework of laws gravitating invariably towards individual liberty.
Before being captivated by the 🦋🌻Great Society dialectic, its corporatization and subsequent foundational erosion of the 🏛️ Republic itself. This neo-dialectical putsch will inexorably punctuate into" 🐿️
"🎏🗿 Cultural Anarchism, a dialectic catalyzing 🏚️ deconstruction through the 👁 metaphysics" 🗿 🧃🧃 🧃 "Juice Drinks!"🎏🐀 📻🌻🐛🌻🦋 "of collective narcissism!" 🐿️ 🐀🛹🌻 "And/or-
🪖🐿️ Cultural Nationalism, a dialectic catalyzed 🥁🐓 to 👑crown 🍔McChrist through the 👁 metaphysics of collective retribution!," 🗿 "Or-
total 🌎 ecological catastrophage!" 🦝 📻 "iz what i'iz" ☕️🐿 ☕️🐀 🧸🌻 "Humpty didn't." 🍳🐓⛺️

[@BishopofBayeux]

Great content as usual, thanks for breaking this down so succinctly. 👍

[@nordic2112]

This is a great video Ryan. Thanks for your impressive work.

[@adam_meade]

Great content! But man, I wish "liberal right" wasn't on the LEFT side of the graph and "liberal left" wasn't on the RIGHT side. Seriously though, thanks for the content. I work in a university and there has been a strong current of anti-liberal progressivism lately. These videos have been extremely helpful.

[@realryanchapman]

When did you see that anti-liberalism roughly starting? And trust me I thought about putting liberal left and right on the actual left and right, but thought it would have been even weirder to have laissez-faire on the right and intervention on the left. I also think it feels more natural to have conservatives on the left side of the screen and progressives on the right because of the way we read and understand screen direction.

[@adam_meade]

@@realryanchapman Good point about intervention on the left and laissez-faire on the right. I hadn't considered that. I'd say it started about 2-3 years ago when we brought in a couple of new people with much more interventionist leanings. However, things really gained steam after the death of George Floyd. I'm in a psychology department in an engineering oriented university and have been for 19 years. Until now, there has been a lot of respect for data-driven policies, academic freedom, etc. and have been generally free from the postmodernism you see more in the humanities. Starting last summer, the newer interventionist faculty started making more headway however as all of us try to embrace antiracism. At that time I saw more colleagues willing to set aside reliance on data and further embrace ideologically driven policies (e.g., the push to do away with GRE testing for our doctoral programs, segregation of students by race during orientation, "decolonizing" syllabi, etc.). I think most of us tend to want to do the right thing and trust the experts when they tell us these things are useful, but do not understand the philosophies underlying the critical race theory these proposals are built upon.

[@realryanchapman]

Ah sorry to hear that. That sounds frustrating. I've seen some other staff come forward with similar concerns over the last few months. Have you been tracking that happening on more of a national scale? It seems like there's been a push for anti-racism programs in K-12 and in colleges and it's happening pretty quietly without much research backing it.

[@adam_meade]

@@realryanchapman I haven't tracked it in any formal way, but it does seem to be on the rise doesn't it? Several republican lead legislatures have recently introduced anti-CRT bills which points to a trend as well. In some ways, I'm glad to see some action but I also worry this will become a partisan issue that Democrats reflexively oppose. As a psychologist, I find it interesting that unlike previous Marxist movements in the US, this version appeals largely to the emotions of guilt and sympathy while using shaming (quick labels of "fragility" and calling of racists) to silence critics. These aspects seem a bit different than what you described in your video on the 60s radicals which make it interesting and potentially more effective.

[@realryanchapman]

Not to push my own videos but check out the one I did on memetics if you haven't. It's about how ideas naturally evolve over time into their most potent form, if you measure potency by their attractiveness to the human mind and the rate that they spread from one person to another (like a virus). I think we're seeing that with Marxism in America and how it over time attached to the subjects that Americans feel most guilty about.

[@YSiLvErY]

As an Italian citizen I recently struggled a lot to understand how American are now looking at liberalism vs Europeans but your video clarified a lot of concepts. I’m just wondering why you didn’t talked about who’s considered to be the father of classical liberalism (John Locke ). Keep it up with the good works , your content is pure perfection.

[@mnfowler1]

He mentioned Locke once. I don't think he wanted to get bogged down discussing the background too much or this would not have been a concise presentation. he focused on the crystallization of liberalism in its nineteenth century heyday. That is why he mentioned the highly influential John Stuart Mill. The only thing is that he could have mentioned that Mill was British, not American. Not wanting to get bogged down can be taken too far.

[@JayPot-bf9dm]

Here in the United States, John Locke was never considered a liberalism today in the United States. He is considered a far right fascist no joke. Our constitution was very influenced by John Locke, which I am a constitutional is so although I’m being considered a fascist I believe we should stick to the constitution. That’s where our rights are.. but what do I know I’m a fascist 🙄🙄🙄

[@ch1apet761]

I'm very happy that I came across your channel. Very educational

[@__coach__mike]

Ryan, your content is top notch! Thank you!

[@jack.h99]

Wow, its almost like most people aren't out to get you and just want everyone to get along and prosper but have different ideas of how to go about it.

[@feedbackhell]

sounds about right, but there sure are a lot of nasty characters out there

[@FutbolClubBarca]

Another great video. Do you think you’ll make any videos on the progression of conservative thought ? I’d like to hear your take on it. Especially as it relates to the last 20-30 years of conservatism.

[@JayPot-bf9dm]

Conservatives have progressed to the left. I am a constitutionalist. I would be call a radical.😂😂😂 both a democrat party and the republican party are now left. The Democrat party has become so far left. They are on the verge of fascism if they don’t wake up.

[@BrandonsCommentary]

Amazing content, sharing this widely!

[@africanprince222]

These are such high quality videos. You deserve far more views!

[@JayFlowie]

I feel I would consider myself a liberal between right and left, and really dislike being considered a socially accepted term liberal, which you refer to as progressive here or conservative. I really like the way you present information here, in a way to make your viewers think about their beliefs, without forcing your opinions. It's very refreshing, thanks for the content you make.

[@YMDBass]

Thank you for the insightful videos. Its nice to see the breakdown of some of these things without a hard opinion weaved into it. I've found my own opinion lines more with a liberal right (libertarian viewpoint), but I remember as an 22 year old watching a republican debate with my father in 2008 and seeing Ron Paul I asked what was up with him since he was challenging so many things on the debate state, and I agreed with him mostly and my father just blurting out "oh he's just a liberal pretending to be a republican". It was funny because at the time I thought "he doesn't really sound liberal" because of what I had always heard. As I grew I began to understand where he stood (as well as I did) really on the spectrum and I have said for a while, I find myself with far more in common with the liberal left (or I've said the libertarian left) than I have anything to do with the primary republican or democratic values. This kind of stuff is utterly fascinating to me.

[@greciaeppiatore5073]

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[@vikramrawlo5570]

What an amazing breakdown, thank you Sir ❤

[@jameslaporta8689]

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[@sebastianz]

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[@michaelreynolds8204]

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[@stoicazoo7845]

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[@stoicazoo7845]

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[@yqafree]

I've found your channel to be very fair when describing and explaining political theories. It's a nice thing to witness.

[@killerkn9786]

Well done. I'm happy someone has addressed this topic

[@sononi4798]

This channel is so dope! I don't know what inspired or compelled you to create this content but what Americans need more than anything right now is education and a better understanding of history and how we arrived to this moment we are in.

[@bomapenguin]

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[@BULLSBASKETBALLFAN23]

Another great, informative video. Thank you for this!

[@WisdomFromAshes]

Thanks for all the research and boiling it down to a summary that's easy to digest.

[@cellocovers3982]

I've never made the connection between liberals and libertarians, because of how different the ideas of people who call themself as such are, although given the spelling the relation should be obvious. It's amazing how much a word can change meaning colloquially in such a relatively short time period.

[@jamarr81]

It's really quite simple. Libertarians are extremists. They believe pedophilia should be legal so long as the child consents to the adult. Liberals recognize that children are not mentally capable of making that consent because the human brains does not fully mature until around the age of 25. This is the distinction between libertarians and liberals. Libertarians take freedom to the point of stupidity and just keep going.

[@mazscsu]

@@jamarr81 Not all libertarians. Many believe in a small state to impose basic laws.

[@dennismitchell5276]

@@jamarr81 that's not even a generalization, just an ignorant rant.

[@jamarr81]

@@dennismitchell5276 isn't it amazing the whining and backtracking that libertarians will go to, to distance themselves from their own ideology. All of sudden, when you introduce some nuance/complexity into the picture, the more moderate libertarians will start walking back their position and advocating for regulation where it "makes sense". A key distinction is that they generally only care about their own personal/subjective notion of issues that directly affect themselves. They have no broader concept of community much less society at large. This is why they have tend to have minimal conformity. They're a bunch of immature children whining over who gets to hold the ball on the playground. And while not all libertarians are pedophiles, most pedophiles are libertarian.

[@dennismitchell5276]

@@jamarr81 You are obviously confused. It's like saying Biden is a communist. Libertarians can be communist, socialist, anarchist, christian, gay, haters of capitalism, especially when capitalism has control of the government. Not all democrats are Nazis, just because Hitler called himself a democratic socialist.

[@DavidEColon]

REQUEST: could you make a video explaining Conservatism and a separate one delving into Progressivism? I consider myself a classical liberal yet I’m feeling more right-leaning in US politics. But I do not agree with the GOP platform so I am hesitant of the term Conservative. But I do feel that Conservatives (GOP) today seem more Liberal than Democrats today. So I agree that we need to recapture these terms as they are not being applied properly. I greatly enjoy how you explained these evolutions in this video but while I understand progressivism vs traditionalism as extremes of the right and left (culturally), this left me wondering what you meant with the term Conservative. I do not see modern conservatism (GOP) as interventionists of cultural/personal freedoms.

[@michaelreynolds8204]

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[@cosettapessa6417]

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[@davidpearson6838]

I agree that a video explaining Conservatism and Progressivism would be a great way to round out this topic.

[@seaofseeof]

Ok here's the thing: In Europe, liberalism and capitalism are things we invented at one point in our histories. In the US, however, liberalism and capitalism are the foundational bedrock of your nation. When you are a "right-winger" in the US, you seek to preserve the liberal, capitalist values that your country was built on. The Jeffersonian ideals. The right-left dichotomy has its origins in Europe, a Europe that was built on Feudalism, not liberalism. Whereas the US was built on liberalism and not feudalism. So when you then try to apply this taxonomy of political inclinations on America, you will find that values that may not in and of themselves be "right-wing" in Europe, might be considered "right-wing" in the US. Know what I mean? Because your country was built on liberalism, and you seek to maintain liberal values, then your liberalism is in its nature "right-wing". That said, do not necessarily mistake "right-wing" with "conservative". Coservatism in the US refers to a specific movement born from the Old Right in the early post-WW2 period. It's just one example of broadly "right-wing" thought. Objectivism and libertarianism are others.

[@cosettapessa6417]

@@seaofseeof is it related to the concept of healthcare considered a human right instead of a privilege? And vice versa for gun rights?

[@HarveyMushman]

Thank you for doing the hard work and making all these concepts digestible and easier to approach. Also thank you for the literature suggestions and the neutral explanation.

[@ishetrying]

I enjoy the videos and love the intro/outro music. Thank you.

[@kyle88740]

This is an excellent video, very well organized. Do you have content planned for the evolution of conservatism and progressivism?

[@karlhalvorson4172]

Interesting video! I’ve never been very read on social economics. I’m learning a lot. One minor criticism is that your right and left graphics need to be flipped. You have the right on the left side and it pointing left and you have the left on the right side and pointing right. As for the term liberal, I was born in the 60’s, and in the 60’s and 70’s as a young person had a simplistic definition of liberal and conservative. Conservatives wanted to conserve the status quo and liberals wanted to change it. Being very liberal meant wanting a lot of change, both socially and economically. Some people, however, would say they are socially liberal, but economically conservative, meaning they were for social change but they favored conservative republican fiscal policies. That’s what I thought, rightly or wrongly. I still think most people from my generation thought that way. When Bernie Sanders came around is when I started hearing the term progressive. It is also when I started hearing some of the younger generation criticizing liberals which kind of disappointed me because I felt I, who considered myself to be a liberal, was philosophically on the same side as them. They were not just criticizing neoliberals, which you did not touch on incidentally, but all liberals. So I have been a bit confused with what has been going on with the term liberal. Your video has started to shed some light.

[@michaelreynolds8204]

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[@Pensnmusic]

It's my understanding that the two biggest (relevant) differences between liberalism and neoliberalism come down to markets, where liberals think they're generally good and happen naturally, and neoliberals think they're good but must be *maintained by the state* and that markets select the true ruling elites while weeding out the unproductive from the populace. Liberalism is better than neoliberalism, but it isn't enough to have a coherent and progressive world view imo. The "mental harm" thing that he brushes over is one example. Trauma is a serious problem. Manipulation is a form of mental harm we need to take very seriously. I think the underlying belief that markets produce good outcomes is also misguided. Individual freedom that is *equitably* distributed is a good thing, but I don't think liberalism originally called for equity. What's your understanding of liberalism and how that aligns with the younger folks criticizing liberalism?

[@SandfordSmythe]

@@Pensnmusic Why is the understanding of "liberals" vs "neo-liberals" so messed up? They have different meanings in different countries.

[@josephcoon5809]

So, the first thing you have to understand is that “liberalism” involves a specific state of freedom. Laws are the antithesis of freedom. Secondly, “conservatism” is a relative modifier. It requires a term to explicitly define what is to be conserved. You mentioned a couple, but a Constitutional Conservative seek to conserve the founding principles. Those founding principles were the progressive ideas in their time while the Tories were the conservatives because they wanted to conserve the supremacy of the Crown. Now, if it was PROGRESS to move away from a tyrannical centralized government, how is it progress to go BACK to one? A Constitutional Conservative seeks to conserve the Progress the Founders made by resisting the regression back to a centralized government. Centralization in a socioeconomic contexts is equivalent to tyranny. Everywhere else, it leads to instability, susceptibility to corruption, and exponentially increasing inefficiency. Centralization is regressive.

[@a.b3203]

@@SandfordSmythe which countries?

[@Br0nze]

Grateful to have found this channel.

[@jarrodcarter1466]

I really enjoy your content. It provides a great refresher for all of this stuff I learned long ago in university. Please keep it up. I am sending friends and family links to your videos

[@michaelreynolds8204]

Please do send links to this channel I am African-American and I’ve learned a lot I’m trying to discuss this things with my friends

[@t0xyg3n]

By equivocating liberalism and progressive/leftism (both actively anti-liberalism) the democrats avoid splitting their vote and party.

[@JamesR1986]

Also you don't need to be progressive/leftist to believe that certain groups (mainly African Americans and Native Americans) have not been given a fair opportunity in American society and as Ryan pointed out in his video parents are inevitably going to help their descendants get ahead.

[@veronicamaine3813]

Did you watch the video? Because that’s wrong - it seems the great traversty is that people lop the liberal right with conservatives which is incorrect, but the liberal left and progressives go pretty well together.

[@bonogiamboni4830]

@@veronicamaine3813 did *you* watch it? He specified how progressivism, like conservatism, is typically not a liberal position since it seeks to change people's opinions through authority instead of being culturally laissez faire, and while it's possible to be both progressive and liberal, just like it is to be conservative and liberal, it's not an automatic thing. He even made that chart at the end where the four positions are separated.

[@mbdg6810]

@@veronicamaine3813 its accurate that dems lump these groups intentionally.

[@wubbalubadubdub714]

That was so neutral…it’s almost like a forgotten language or a repressed memory.

[@TheQuixoticRambler]

Great work! Beautifully done.

[@christophershirley3279]

Very good! I'm learning so much from this channel.

[@user-fp8xc8lf3f]

hell yeah

[@Karrde]

I think this is a side effect of the two party system in the US. Europe with more political parties has this problem a little less.

[@realryanchapman]

I think so too. I don't see why we wouldn't be able to wrap our heads around there being two major types of people within each party though, if it were part of standard political education.

[@Karrde]

@@realryanchapman Even two would be lumping different people into the same category, but that would be a discussion with no end. It would also be dangerous for these parties, as a division of the party could damage it's election result, or worse, split the party. And even then, I'm not sure those division would be real or important enough, or even the right division.

[@pauletteessame8180]

you're not wrong, but Europe has other problems, they just count them in a different way, if I may say so (I am French°

[@3lentiya_052]

this video is helping me so much with my essay in liberal theory! I really appreciate all the sources clearly cited in your video. you clearly put a lot of effort into this video so thank you!

[@Jibbertyjabber]

Liberal theory.... What a joke lol

[@chrispercival9789]

Love your content Ryan. Keep Calm and Carry On!

[@MrClarkLickingValley]

Nice job Ryan. I agree with your terminology and have a hard time explaining it to others, especially with the mass media uses of the words "Liberal" and "Conservative". I teach high school world history and try to help my students understand the political spectrum. I know it goes against what you said (and I think you are correct) but to help them grasp things I teach my students that "Classic Liberals" of the 1700-1800s hold pretty much the same values as "Modern Conservatives". Individual rights were a "new" then, but the passage of 245+ years have made our ideas of independence "traditional". Conservatives tend to like tradition, but we never had a tradition of Monarchy, so American tradition is based on our founding classic liberal principles are now modern conservative ideas here in our young nation. I know this goes against your definitions that I agree with, but I just can't find another way to get 15 and 16 year olds to wrap their heads around this stuff. I really enjoy your posts, I enjoy seeing someone much younger than me actually reading and thinking. Thanks for your time making these great videos!

[@jaakkopitkanen7734]

Modern conservatives very often think religion should be mixed with politics and are for example for the state limiting individuals rights on say sexuality based on religious morals. Classical liberals would have certainly been against that, for example it is completely oppsite to the harm principle of Mill that would most certainly state that the state should have no say in a persons sexuality or a say based on sexuality of who he/she wants to marry. So there definitely is a quite sharp difference.

[@Mario.H]

You’re probably a good teacher. The word liberal has totally lost its meaning over time. What people now call liberals are totally the opposite of the word’s meaning. I never understood how typical Californians who want to overregulate everything, want high taxes, love government intervention etc could be called liberal when they are more socialist than anything.

[@jaakkopitkanen7734]

@@Mario.H You are right, but as I pointed out also conservatives are very different from "Modern conservatives" unlike the original message center wrote, if he teaches this is factually wrong and he is not very good teacher. Modern conservatives biblical moralistic views as a base and argument of changing the legislation to limit the rights of sexual minorities is totally against what John Stuart Mill stated as the main principe of liberalism, "the harm principle" (individuals should be as free as possible to do what they ie. not limited by the state, if that does not limit other individual freedom. You can probably see why legislation limiting the rights of sexual minorities (f.ex. the yearn from the modern conservatives to limit marriage rights of same sexual couple, something Bentham, an avid atheist, would never agree with). If the original poster is not willing to understand this blatant set of facts, then he is probably not a very good teacher, because what he teaches about liberalism is factually incorrect.

[@VisibleMRJ]

I think the society underestimate philosophy for a little too long that's why most people don't even know what they are talking about most of the time. They just repeat whatever came out of Twitter.

[@manzg6695]

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[@jonathanholmquist7176]

I used to be political active and you remind me of my professor when I studied political philosophy in uni. Even though we didn't share views he gave both my "camp" and the others a good representation. Keep up the good work, I really enjoy it! Nice transition music btw!

[@humunculy7c]

Growing up I always thought "liberal" was opposite to "conservative". As in, liberal: for a heavy application and conservative: for a sparing application. The application being, government control. After learning about politics I realized bolth of these terms where historically used in completely different ways, but it made sense at the time.

[@stoicazoo7845]

trump advocated for a heavy application: was he a liberal?

[@humunculy7c]

Yes He's essentially a 90s Democrat. (He was registered as one most of his life) most of his actions fall in line with this. Being "anti woke", regardless of if its genuine or strategic, just changed the base he needed to appeal to.(which worked i guess? Somehow..) He's also a businessman so he acts in personal interest in that regard.

[@stoicazoo7845]

@@humunculy7c then hitler is a liberal too 😂 seems a bit preposterous to me

[@humunculy7c]

@@stoicazoo7845 Absolutely, if you have the more historical view of the term liberal. In that sense I'm a liberal. I'm not arguing for changing the definition. I've switched my usage of the word after studying politics and learning better.(as I said originally) I was just bringing up how a layman that would for example, use liberal as an insult towards people that want allot of government programs makes sense if you understand their using the word differently.

[@stoicazoo7845]

@@humunculy7c hitler was historically a liberal? Are you serious? Get sane please, this is actually bullshit.

[@misstuxbrandi]

I consider myself a liberal. I used to be registered as a Democrat. I left the party last year. I personally do not believe in imperialism, profit wars, lobbying, fascism and censorship and I'm pro small government. I think the democratic party is moving away from my values which yes, at the core is freedom and liberty. I think that we can successfully live in an environment where different cultures are respected, shared and embraced among these values.

[@castiron2844]

I considered myself an old type liberal, libertarian perhaps, I leaned republican until 2018. I wanted small government, low regulation and taxation. Having taken a sabbatical to Europe and seen how they do things I feel the party of my slant is shifting towards oligarchical opening the doors to autocrats. I now ask myself whether the socialist tradition is a better move and in Europe it has worked out very well.

[@80NForEvah]

@@castiron2844 Well, what I’m about to say is not backed up by empirical research it’s just my opinion: seems to me that when one country is producing most of the innovations then it’s easy for other countries to become more liberal…they don’t need to invest as much in R&D. Further, the PM of Denmark told Bernie in 2015 at Harvard to stop calling Denmark socialist, and Sweden has a higher Econ Freedom score than the US does. So…

[@_Jake.From.Statefarm_]

It seems the problem is that neither of those are exclusively to the left or right anymore. Even though they argue otherwise. Let's say for the sake of argument, Abortion rights. Conservatives and Liberals alike think the Government should be involved in this matter. The problem is they don't see eye to eye on what an individual is. Either way, conservatives using the power of the government to restrict someone's rights, who actively have them. Conservatives will claim a moral dialog but in practice, they are speaking for a potential persons rights, yet, for obvious reasons, the only actual person who has rights is restricted. The same goes for the argument over border security, something this nation adopted, and doesn't fit the conservation of Lincoln's party. On the left, they generally want to afford those freedoms to people, but the issues stem as to what freedoms they should be allowed if they aren't a citizen. Once again coming to a head, one with solutions that neither are willing to approach, but are still evident. How, when, and to whom, do you let someone become a citizen. They are both advocated for, barring the extremes. Yet, the arguments stem from that simple solution. Can you be a refugee or an illegal, if everyone was granted citizenship? Clearly, this issue is where the stem issues arise, not how we deport, capture, or prevent illegals or if we should accommodate them, and give them the same rights as citizens, when they aren't actually citizens. To be a country, you need citizenship, as to vote. So what process do you need to fix this? Instant citizenship with a probationary period? Probationary periods that aren't guaranteed that cost potential citizens monies just to be denied? Or a waiting list of applicants in which the Government vets, once again, creating a stronger centralized government, not only though enforcement, but though administrative costs. Today's world is much more complicated in terms of actual core political beliefs. They are sacrificed much more on both sides, mostly on an attempt to gain power through votes. Once corporations practically took over the US Government though legal donations, the scope in which you're allowed to view gets much, much, more directed to where they want you to look, and feel.

[@pizzaente]

I liked the book review at the end! Thanks for you work

[@RatZapTshirt]

What American conservatives conserve is old-fashioned American liberalism in its constantly evolving form. Any progressive program that lasts more than a decade gets folded into the conservative framework as if it had always been there. (Even my father, a staunch conservative Republican born in 1925, praised the innovative government programs of FDR's administration.) I'm sure to some it looks as if conservatives are just trying to stop progress, and dream about trying to turn things back. That's all conservatives ever seem to do, given that they always give in and accept every new thing eventually. But they're not so one-dimensional as that. They simply have weak principles and no plans.

[@pierren___]

They should develop different characteristics from one point then

[@BigManJay69]

EXACTLY! It's why I NEVER describe the modern day lefty or woke person as a 'liberal' because they are anything BUT liberal

[@megapangolin1093]

Lefty/Wokes only want to control the thoughts and behaviours of others, as their understanding of what they think they represent is normally poor, fed from propaganda and is badly digested. They use Groupthink to communicate, ie protest about everything that is Right of where they are, irrespective of its sense or value. They are leading everyone towards a East German Stasi/Chinese Communist Party existence and a lot of them don't know that, they think that they are the "Good guys"...and that is enough...

[@garybarr1045]

Just a big thank you for your work and willingness to express your findings and views. Democracy is now at stake all around the globe. Keep up the good work.

[@ericred5305]

G'Day from Australia, I really do like and appreciate your work; it is so important in these time to have a direct non-bias factual analysis of the political spectrum

[@gwho]

i'll now call myself liberal, then have people get confused when i'm not a lefty, marxist, communist, woke

[@aronchai]

The reason there's been so much turmoil in world politics is at least in part because classical liberalism has exhausted its usefulness. Liberalism seems to only really recognize the existence of "the individual" and "the state", to the degree that the only way to integrate corporations into this framework is to give them "legal personhood" and treat them as individuals with rights. It tells us to only consider individuals in a world where, largely due to changes in the economy, the main actors are increasingly groups of various kinds. This has the effect of disarming disorganized individuals whose interests are opposed to organized collectives, as in the case of workers and corporations. It also blinds us to the potential for cooperation between individuals to achieve mutually beneficial ends. Politics based on a liberal frame disempowers individuals by blinding them to group action, even telling them that action or analysis on the level of groups is immoral, unless mediated through the rigid institutions of the state or the corporation. Politics based on a Marxist frame promotes collective action by obliterating the diversity of individual and group interests. A modern update to liberalism at bare minimum needs to take network dynamics into account. We shouldn't see ourselves as a cloud of independent individuals set in opposition to "the state," but as a network of nodes in a graph with connections to one another of different strengths and kinds. In this frame, an individual's actions are largely determined by the unique combination of connections they have to other nodes, which determine who/what they care about. To the degree that a group of nodes are strongly and densely connected, they can be analyzed as a coherent unit with legitimate interests. Crucially, membership in a group isn't binary, or exclusive of membership in other groups. This sets the stage for a more nuanced understanding of how our interests conflict or reinforce each other, hopefully illuminating the "third ways" between traditional divisions where supposed enemies can collaborate to advance interests they share in common.

[@ahart228]

Excellent. Great research and transparency.

[@DIYAudioGuy]

I like your level, unbiased approach.

[@CO8848_2]

Equality of outcome requires removal of individual liberty. So this notion of liberty and equality at the same time is simple lack of logic.

[@jamarr81]

There are different forms of equality... this was even explained in the video. In fact, he was explicitly stated that "liberals are against equality of outcome", but they are in favor of laws/programs that maximize "equality of opportunity". You can absolutely have varying degrees of liberty and equality at the same time. Maybe pay attention next time before commenting.

[@CO8848_2]

@@jamarr81 Maybe take your inflated ego and stop commenting on subjects you don't understand. It is not well understood among liberals that equality, is not fundamentally compatible with liberty. And this episode is so short that he's not even scratching the surface of the subject.

[@jamarr81]

@@CO8848_2 how are you this stupid? I just explained how equality and liberty are compatible. It was explained in the video as well. Do you believe that just repeating a stupid statement over and over again makes it true?

[@CO8848_2]

@@meansend2657 This video consist of college 101, it's you who literally don't understand much.

[@brittaj68]

You Rock! Thank you for your research and editing etc.

[@AndreBradshaw]

I think this is the 5th video I have watched from the channel. I appreciate the work you are doing to steelman all positions. It's pretty rare to find content with a strong bias for information rather than ideology. Subbed. Regarding freedom, my favorite quote is from Jaron Lanier on Lex Fridman's podcast. "The only authentic form of freedom is perpetual annoyance."

[@jcorey333]

This is really great! I feel like not a lot of people really articulate my thoughts on the matter as well as you did here. Especially the difference between the liberal left/ liberal right and conservatives/progressives

[@user-pl1yp1tj8b]

Informative. Thanks for the historical context. I also appreciate your opinions and I further appreciate that you strive to be honest about what is your opinion versus what you are presenting as fact.

[@YTubePablo]

Great show. Congrats!

[@ih8u696]

Good stuff. I use your channel to educate others on the different subjects. Thanks.

[@tinashemuza8372]

Just bumped into this channel and i cant get enough

[@philipandlaurareed5731]

Really good quality content. Keep it up!

[@peacenyk]

I love this! Getting a neutral perspective on what these terms mean can help heal the division in our country. People throw around these words, especially in politics, without understanding their meaning and oftentimes purposely use them as trigger words to divide people or get a reaction from people. You are providing a great service to America and I hope more people listen to what you have to say. You have done remarkable research.