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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 1428 Illiberal
Description: Back-in-the-day, there were conservatives vs. liberals, defined by the 2 parties. Liberals were dedicated to free speech & personal autonomy; doing your own thing. Conservatives were mostly religious, with prohibitions against saying curse words, and enforcing morals on others via shaming & shunning. They were also censorious, banning information that did not fit their view of life. Young people were attracted to liberalism as both a form of rebellion and an independence conceptualization for how to live their own individual lives. Liberalism expanded to perfectly fit into the natural inclination for people to think they are the center of the universe.
This self-centeredness...