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Liberalism, the philosophy that has ruled much of the world since the Age of Enlightenment, appears to be in its death throes, much to the delight of the anarchists and left-wingers burning down properties and toppling statues from Bristol to Minneapolis, and London to New York.
Some political ideologies are harder to pin down than others, with perhaps those of the "middle ground" the most ephemeral of all. "Liberalism" is an extraordinarily broad term used to cover a variety of political and economic policies spanning the right-left spectrum.
In the West, it can be used as a compliment or a pejorative depending on the context and there seems to be no clearly demarcated overarching philosophy it applies to. However, there always seemed to be one factor that was, for the most part, agreed upon when it came to liberalism: that every person was an individual and should be treated as such.
Comment: Some people would rather forget than remember, rather destroy than create. When you destroy history and ban books, you may think you are ensuring ideological purity for the emergence of a new and better society, but all you are really doing is creating simple minds who will create a nightmare for other people. Don't mistake these kinds of people with those who actually care about things like truth, history, and justice. They are revolutionaries - whether serious or not - with no interest in actual justice. They just want power under the cloak of some empty ideology.