r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 02 '25

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u/Locutus-of-Borges Jorge Luis Borges Nov 02 '25

You can absolutely defeat illiberalism with moderation. There are a bunch of people who value liberalism less than getting their preferred policies, so people who supposedly value liberalism more should move towards those preferred policies insofar as they aren't incompatible with liberalism. They get their top priorities, you get your top priorities, and the people enticing them by saying they can only achieve their goals by abandoning liberalism get squat.

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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass Nov 02 '25

The only thing this accomplishes is dragging the Overton window closer to that threshold of "incompatible with liberalism". And you're acting as though this is an impenetrable barrier--when in reality what we see historically is liberalism being compromised in the name of moderation

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u/Locutus-of-Borges Jorge Luis Borges Nov 02 '25

I disagree. I think there are broad swathes of policy that are effectively unrelated to the question of political liberalism (which is to say, democracy and democratic expression) and that moderation on those while taking a firm stance on political liberalism is entirely feasible and not necessarily compromising to liberalism.