Liberalism
topic on 2 shows · 6 statements across 4 episodes
American Optimist 
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6 statements about Liberalism, every show
Urban: Liberal conservatives share more common ground with liberals than extremists
“If you can expand this a little bit and have more of this vertical axis and just think about this liberal house, you can start to say, actually the liberal, the lowercase, lowercase L liberal conservatives are more on my side than the People on the left with t…”
Andreessen: Current illiberalism is liberalism taken to its logical extreme
“I don't think what's happening now is a betrayal of liberalism. I think it's just the full realization of liberalism. Like, I think it's what happens when you take liberalism to the extreme, which is you declare war on the intolerant, right?”
Lonsdale: Western civilization was unique in successfully developing and spreading liberalism
“I do think the West was unique in its ability to have liberalism, you know, succeed and then kind of spread those values around the world.”
Williams: Liberalism treats people as individuals rather than avatars of identity groups
“Liberalism. Liberalism is about treating people as individuals, not as avatars of identity groups.”
Williams: Liberalism Is the Only System That Works
“It's the only system that really works. It's the system that's gotten us the kind of quality of life that We kind of take for granted to the point that we're experimenting with forms that have never worked in the past and won't work in the future. Liberalism m…”
Ghonim: Liberal leaders are recklessly optimistic and discount long-term consequences
“If you look at the patterns of liberalism and, you know, how individual characteristics of the people who are leading that kind of wave of progress and liberalism and so on you would find one very common they are recklessly optimistic. They push in directions …”