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Bei den aktuellen Umfrageergebnissen wirkt die Brandmauer in die andere Richtung. Wer Union oder FDP wählt, wählt links-grüne Regierungen. Wer links-grüne Regierungen wählt, wählt wirtschaftlichen Niedergang. Die Leute wollen Liberalismus. Aber sie verstehen, dass es über die FDP keine Chance gibt ihn zu erhalten. #FDP #Wahlen #Liberalismus

In his opinion article, Izz ad-Din Ruhulessin argues that educational freedom, often seen as a core liberal value in the Netherlands, is in reality a myth that stems from a historical struggle against freedom and equality, and that this freedom mainly comes at the expense of developing spiritual autonomy in children. (translated)

Mark Carney a nommé l'un des plus influents libéraux à la tête de l’agence gouvernementale en charge du BS corporatif. Dominic Barton dirigeait McKinsey dans les années où la firme s’enrichissait en aidant Purdue Pharma à « aggraver » la crise des opioïdes. Dominic Barton présidait le Conseil consultatif sur l'économie de Trudeau quand les contrats fédéraux de McKinsey explosaient de trente fois pour dépasser les 200 millions de dollars, des contrats dont la vérificatrice générale a déterminé plus tard qu’ils bafouaient les règles. Maintenant, il va favoriser les gens bien connectés à obtenir des milliards en subventions payées par les taxes et impôts des Canadiens. Il est le même qui s’est rapproché du gouvernement communiste de Pékin chez McKinsey en allant jusqu’à travailler avec des entreprises d’État qui violent le droit international et qui refusent de condamner le génocide des Ouïghours. C'est simple, le club libéral s’enrichit aux dépens de tous les autres. #Politique #Libéralisme #Corruption

When a politician starts with "as a liberal," you know that a problem will soon be declared unsolvable. Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist's (C) defense of the right to wear a burqa reveals a larger question: how did it become liberal to protect this reactionary view of women? (translated)

Bis letztes Jahr habe ich immer gesagt, wir sollen auf Milei schauen, aber wir können ihn nicht kopieren, weil es für uns zu radikal wäre. Soweit seien wir in Deutschland noch nicht. Wenn ich mir aber die Reformblockade von Politikern und das Agieren von Behörden (Gleichstellungsbeauftragte, Antidiskriminierungbeauftragte, Datenschutzbeauftragte etc.) und die sich auftürmenden Probleme in den Sozialversicherungen und öffentlichen Haushalten sowie die fortschreitende Deindustrialisierung ansehe, komme ich immer mehr dahin, dass wir bald einen so radikalliberalen Reformer wie Milei brauchen. Sicherlich mit anderen Rezepten, aber eben viel radikaler als alles, was bisher angedacht ist. In Argentinien hat das „Afuera“ zu mehr Freiheit und mehr Wohlstand und weniger Armut geführt. Das kann ja nicht verkehrt sein. #Reformen #Politik #Liberalismus

Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) and related gender ideological-belief measures were strongly associated with left-wing authoritarianism” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) was not simply standing in for being politically left-wing” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Support for coercion, punishment, and violence appears to be tied less to liberalism generally than to an authoritarian disposition organized around left-wing ideological content” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Gender ideology may supply authoritarian psychology with a structured map of perceived outgroups, threat sources, and oppressor classes” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Dissent becomes not a legitimate position but a failure of professional duty or an act of harm” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “The same psychological machinery operates on the extreme left”- Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Violence can come to seem permissible or necessary” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Three findings pull in the same direction. People who strongly endorse gender ideology positions score dramatically higher on left-wing authoritarianism than their political identity alone would predict. Furthermore, both LWA (Left-Wing Authoritarianism) and CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) predicted support for political violence” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Together, these findings support the paper's core claim: gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant, telling left-wing authoritarian psychology who the enemy is, why the situation is urgent, and—in those already disposed toward force—that violence is legitimate” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “One mechanism by which clinical content may translate into violence permission deserves note. Trans-Genocide Belief—the perceived likelihood that a genocide of individuals that identify as transgender is currently underway in the United States—is predicted to more strongly relate to CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) and LWA (Left-Wing Authoritarianism) than to political identity and to be associated with elevated justification for political violence” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “This prediction is consistent with broader research showing that perceived threat, existential threat, and collective victimhood can increase support for hardline, punitive, or exclusionary action against outgroups, particularly when paired with authoritarian dispositions or strong moral conviction (Armaly & Enders, 2022; Carriere et al., 2022; Hirschberger et al., 2016; Kljajić et al., 2025; Schori-Eyal et al., 2014; Skitka, 2010)” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Related work on moralization and violent intergroup conflict further suggests that when a political conflict is framed as a moral emergency involving dangerous or demonized outgroups, violence can come to seem permissible or necessary (Mooijman et al., 2018; Saguy & Reifen-Tagar, 2022)” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “The practical stakes are straightforward. Research frameworks for understanding authoritarianism have historically focused overwhelmingly on the political right, while analogous left-wing pathways have received far less attention. Yet federal agencies and public safety officials are concerned not only with ideology in the abstract, but with radicalization pathways: the content that tells people who to fear, why the situation is urgent, and when force becomes acceptable” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology “This study suggests that the same psychological machinery operates on the extreme left, and that it may be running through institutional channels—clinical guidelines, professional standards, credentialed expertise—that current threat-detection frameworks are not well designed to recognize” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Violence connected to gender ideology remains largely undocumented in the academic literature. This study provides a first systematic empirical look at the psychological infrastructure that makes such violence conceivable” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Both LWA (Left-Wing Authoritarianism) and CGAS (Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale) were significantly positively correlated with justification for political violence across all six targets” - Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology? “Our main findings for youth starting treatment with blockers include: At baseline, about one-quarter of these youth had clinically concerning scores for depression and anxiety. About one-quarter reported having thought about suicide, and 8% reported having attempted suicide in the past. These numbers are on par with the population of middle school youth at large” - The Trans Youth Care - United States “Our main findings for youth starting treatment with GAH include: At baseline, about half of these youth had clinically concerning scores for depression and anxiety. About two-thirds reported having thought about suicide, and one-quarter reported having attempted. By two years after starting GAH, these youth showed increased scores for life satisfaction, appearance congruence (having the physical appearance of one's body match one's gender identity), positive emotions, and psychological well-being and decreased scores for depression and anxiety” - The Trans Youth Care - United States

Multiculturalism or Liberalism… You Can’t Have Both Canada’s Combating Hate Act received royal assent on June 18 and became law in July, defining hatred as an intense and extreme emotion and extending emotion’s reach into government and criminal law. Supporters cite a 169% rise in reported hate crimes from 2018 to 2024, but the increase reflects predictable outcomes when groups with deep historical, cultural, and religious conflicts are placed together in large numbers while assuming differences will fade. “Diversity is our strength” can’t replace shared culture: cooperation at scale requires shared values and norms. Import enough difference quickly while demanding universal tolerance, and social order begins to fracture, leaving strangers who share a passport but little else—so the state steps in to do what culture once did. Multiculturalism can drift toward authoritarianism: the state expands to manage conflicts, neutrality becomes impossible without common standards, and unequal treatment follows. Britain illustrates the danger, with thousands of arrests in 2023 under communications laws for alleged offensive messages and long sentences for single posts. Meanwhile, authorities have shown hesitation toward major crimes involving protected communities, often citing fears of racism and community harm—creating a double standard. Canada also has examples, such as the Gladue principles, which require sentencing judges to consider the circumstances of Indigenous offenders, letting group identity influence state treatment. The multicultural liberal state was sold as open, tolerant, and equal—but if groups won’t “melt,” or fundamentally oppose one another, the result is increasingly unequal laws, more surveillance, and less liberty. Multiculturalism and liberalism are incompatible: without shared cultural standards, a society will be governed from above through laws, courts, and coercion.

Der Imageschaden für den Bayerischen Hof wird immer größer, auch im Ausland. Die NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG schreibt heute: "Jetzt hat es das Ludwig-von-Mises-Institut Deutschland (MID) erwischt. Das nach dem liberalen österreichischen Ökonomen und Staatsphilosophen Ludwig von Mises benannte Institut darf seine jährlichen Konferenzen künftig nicht mehr im «Bayerischen Hof» in München abhalten. Das Management des Fünf-Sterne-Luxushotels begründete in der vergangenen Woche seine Entscheidung damit, dass die öffentlichen Äusserungen von Vertretern des Mises-Instituts nicht mit den Werten der «Weltoffenheit, Toleranz, Vielfalt sowie den Grundwerten einer freiheitlichen und demokratischen Gesellschaft» vereinbar seien, für die der «Bayerische Hof» stehe. Hintergrund der Entscheidung des Hotels war ein Bericht des Münchner Lokalblatts «Abendzeitung». Darin wirft die Zeitung dem Institut vor, unter dem Deckmantel wissenschaftlicher Expertise den Staat und die Demokratie infrage zu stellen. Mit dieser Haltung weise das Mises-Institut, das bis vor wenigen Jahren von dem 2021 verstorbenen Milliardär August von Finck junior finanziert wurde, eine gefährliche Nähe zur AfD und zum Rechtsextremismus auf. Staatskritische Denkschule Um dem Vorwurf der Rechtslastigkeit des Mises-Instituts Gravitas zu verleihen, zitiert das Abendblatt Kronzeugen aus dem linken politischen Spektrum, die für ihre antikapitalistische Haltung hinlänglich bekannt sind. Darunter der für die linke Kampagnen-Organisation Campact arbeitende Soziologe Andreas Kemper und der kanadische Historiker Quinn Slobodian. Das legt die Vermutung nahe, dass hinter der medialen Attacke gegen das Mises-Institut der Versuch steht, die Marktwirtschaft und den Kapitalismus, für die Liberale und Libertäre eintreten, gesellschaftlich zu desavouieren. Solcherlei Vorwürfe sind nicht neu. Seit Jahren schon versuchen Vertreter aus dem linken politischen Spektrum der liberalen Friedrich-August-von-Hayek-Gesellschaft eine Nähe zu rechtslastigem Gedankengut nachzuweisen. Ludwig von Mises und dessen Schüler Friedrich August von Hayek waren bedeutende Vertreter der österreichischen Schule der Nationalökonomie. Es handelt sich dabei um eine staatskritische liberale Denkschule, die im 19. Jahrhundert von Carl Menger begründet wurde. Mises plädiert in seinen Werken für einen Minimalstaat, der sich darauf beschränkt, das Eigentum und die Freiheit der Bürger sowie den Frieden zu schützen. Er wandte sich scharf gegen staatliche Eingriffe in die Wirtschaft. Diese lösten eine Interventionsspirale aus und trieben die Wirtschaft in den Sozialismus, mahnte er." #BayerischerHof #Liberalismus #Freiheit

"Above all, we need to lean into our achievements. Europe remains an oasis of security, stability, and the rule of law. We have independent courts, who strive not to be mere mouthpieces of whoever is in power. We keep our word. We respect contracts. Our continent respects and admires science, reads history, cares about culture, and is mindful of the lessons of the past. We should use those things to become a magnet for investment, for innovation, for people with new ideas. Our very predictability is an advantage in a world of unpredictable powers." "We did invent divisive and ugly ideas, and we can retrieve them from the past. But all of the texts that led to the birth of classical liberalism were written here too, if we want to find them, revive them, and reinterpret them for the present." Anne Applebaum, The Speech to Europe 2026 https://www.erstestiftung.org/en/a-speech-to-europe-2026-the-european-moment/

Om Liberalerna faktiskt går ur tiden om tre veckor är det knappast Jimmie Åkesson som ska dömas för brottet. Gärningsmannen ska snarare sökas bland generationer av liberala ledare, som misslyckats med att ge partiet en relevant roll i svensk politik. https://t.co/l5c8DAMOyX #politiksverige #liberalism #svensktpolitiskliv

”Ulf Kristersson (M) är kanske vår tids von Papen, men Mohamssons underlåtenhet är slående lik Neville Chamberlains.” Vad har hänt med ”liberala” Sydsvenskan? Detta är oerhört hårda tillmälen om två borgerliga partiledare som ifrågasätter deras karaktär i stället för att fokusera på politiken. Att vara liberal betyder inte att man anser att alla värderingar och beteenden är ok – och att dåligt uppförande inte ska straffa sig (vilket Sydsvenskan verkar tycka). https://t.co/W98sf1IhKi #Politik #Sverige #Liberalism

Moa Berglöf på Sydsvenskans ledarsida, liksom flera av hennes kollegor på DN, tillhör vad man skulle kunna kalla S-liberalerna: socialdemokrater i liberal förpackning. Det märkliga är inte att de ständigt tycker som S. Det märkliga är att de gör det från ledarsidor som kallar sig liberala. #Sverige #politik #liberalism

The article highlights the consequences of government intervention during the pandemic, which led to a decline in toll revenues and reveals deficiencies in public administration and the privatization of profits, where the state protects large concessionaires at the expense of small businesses and taxpayers. (translated)