Liberalism and the Civil War

One of the main criticisms that people have of liberalism is it has never lived up to its own ideals. It's not a coincidence that liberalism was the ideology of states that colonized other countries, he says. The charge that somehow this flows from the liberal principles themselves is completely wrong and unconvincing for another reason. But i do think that, you know, if you just look at what the united states looked like in the 18 fifties compared to today, very hard to say that we haven't made a lot of progress.

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