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=====Liberals===== | =====Liberals===== | ||
Liberal parties have a serious strategic problem: '''By achieving their objectives, they hollow out themselves - faster than any other party.''' Genuine liberalism is characterized by the struggle for personal liberties and civil rights. These freedoms are usually won once and then exist for a long time without further action. Fighting for additional freedoms or expanding existing freedoms is becoming increasingly difficult to practically impossible. As | Liberal parties have a serious strategic problem: '''By achieving their objectives, they hollow out themselves - faster than any other party.''' Genuine liberalism is characterized by the struggle for personal liberties and civil rights. These freedoms are usually won once and then exist for a long time without further action. Fighting for additional freedoms or expanding existing freedoms is becoming increasingly difficult to practically impossible. '''As consequence''', these parties are shrinking and tend to take up '''substitute objectives'''. '''Constitutional liberal objectives keep flaring up, but they only have a niche existence next to economic liberalism.''' The economy is strongly patriarchal (male-dominated), so that feminists and left-wing identities (themes of sex and gender, diversity, rights for minorities, wokeness) have increasingly been taken up by the Greens and the Left. | ||
This disregard and the economically liberal focus repeatedly brings the liberals close to the 5% hurdle and makes them vulnerable to lobbying and ''mercenarism''. Sometimes one favors the other. -- Against large donations the industry and economy expect a radical market economy policy or a policy that is exactly tailored to the respective donor. In part, this can have a reactionary, an anti-progressive and a paradoxical effect: new technologies are prevented in order to protect existing business models and prevent the dynamics of a free market. In this way, anti-liberal policies is done by the liberals themselves. -- Free thinking and acting of the liberals [https://archive.is/fW7lc is increasingly hindered by lobbyists]. | This disregard and the economically liberal focus repeatedly brings the liberals close to the 5% hurdle and makes them vulnerable to lobbying and ''mercenarism''. Sometimes one favors the other. -- Against large donations the industry and economy expect a radical market economy policy or a policy that is exactly tailored to the respective donor. In part, this can have a reactionary, an anti-progressive and a paradoxical effect: new technologies are prevented in order to protect existing business models and prevent the dynamics of a free market. In this way, anti-liberal policies is done by the liberals themselves. -- Free thinking and acting of the liberals [https://archive.is/fW7lc is increasingly hindered by lobbyists]. | ||