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YoungDemCA

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4. Liberalism BEGINS with the rights of the individual, but it doesn't END there...
Tue Feb 5, 2013, 06:02 PM
Feb 2013

We live in a (increasingly) diverse country, and that diversity is along many lines-economic class, race (as a social construct), culture, ethnicity, religion (or no religion), gender identity, sexual orientation, nation of origin, and last but not least, personalities, beliefs, values, and experiences (individual or as a member of a group or culture).

With so many different individuals in our increasingly diverse and inter-connected society, only a strong government, accountable to the people, and democratic in process, can protect and expand every individual human being's rights, opportunities, and liberties.

That's what a truly modern, innovative version of liberalism can and should be about.

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