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    No. Liberal countries do most of the resistance of Fascism. The UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and other liberal (at the time) countries where key to defeating the german Nazis, and the fascists in Italy, and the Imperialist Japan in WWII. Institutions like the UN, European Court of Human Rights, and NATO all came about from liberal countries, and were specifically designed to prevent more fascism. If liberalism is alwasys headed towards “decay into fascism,” those liberal-led alliances would have collapsed into authoritarianism decades ago. Instead, they’ve mostly grown and improved human rights.

    Liberals have driven a load of meaningful structural changes. How about . . .

    • Civil Rights Act which brought down the racial segregation, and was led by liberal lawmakers and other progressive movements.
    • Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation – passed in in the last 20 years in Canada, UK, and the US.
    • Continued growth of Universal Healthcare
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      This is wrong on many accounts.

      1. The UK, France, US, Canada, and Australia all paled in comparison to the USSR, who killed 85% of the total Nazis killed during World War II. Many of these liberal countries, the US especially, had thriving trade with Nazi Germany and non-aggression pacts early on in the 1930s. The US even continued to do business in Nazi Germany during World War II by cloaking assets owned by Ford, Coke, etc. It isn’t liberals, but communists that have been the most consistent and steady anti-fascists in history.

      2. NATO isn’t anti-fascist, it’s anti-communist, and has been led by literal Nazis like Adolf Heusinger. There is no part of NATO that has been anti-fascist.

      3. These liberal countries have always been authoritarian, as they are all dictatorships of capital.

      4. They have grown economically thanks to the spoils of imperialism.

      5. The Civil Rights Act was won by leftist agitation from leftists like Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and outright communists like the Black Panther Party relentlessly pushing for it. Liberals opposed it initially.

      6. Same-sex marriage was pushed for relentlessly by leftists such as the Black Panther Party, Gay Liberation Front, and more, until liberals eventually conceded.

      7. Universal Healthcare has been regularly pushed for through millitant organizing from leftists, liberals have been responsible for weakening or privatizing healthcare.

      You don’t really know what you’re talking about.

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        As much as some of that is partly true is does more to demonstrate your focus on disregarding postive stuff, which is the majority, only calling out the negative takes that serve your argument. based on this behaviour I’m guessing you are a Trump support. btw, Trump is old an English word meaning to pass wind, aka fart.

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          Trump is old an English word meaning to pass wind, aka fart.

          The best way to describe Trump is a wet fart. But you saying this doesn’t hurt our feelings. We 100% agree he’s a fart. We just also think Starmer is a fart, and you fail to see that part.

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          Liberalism is the ideological justification for capitalism. Outside of that, any “principles” it holds are purely in service of uplifting private property rights, any positive movement attributed to liberalism can only really be expressed in opposition to feudalism and other more backwards modes of production, or as dragged into progressive movement by the working class. I’m not a Trump supporter, I’m a communist.