tatteredsoul
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I was waiting for your thread
I honestly don't really know. Perhaps because liberalism became one of the most important tendencies in the westernized world and that it seems impossible to totally combine an established dogma and liberalism. The ones choosing the dogma are then hostile to the ones who did not. Liberalism if often seen as a kind of threat. I don't know if this is really one or not. People often make the confusion between a kind of extreme liberalism (which is an excess to me) and a moderate liberalism.
This post is sort of blind beyond page 1, but I really like this answer and others.
I would say perhaps liberalism is threatening because it implies change - and some people may not have the foundation to stay rigid even in a medium of change. So, they attack the thoughtform. The fact that it is an abstraction makes it even more threatening: you can't physically beat, molest, rape, abuse, kill, torture, exile, nuke, go to war with, starve, imprison, or capture liberalism (same with the opposite end of spectrum.) So it becomes a sort of ethereal offense - one step from being a haunting of mean old Nana visiting you in the middle of the night.
I am personally spiritually conservative and politically independent. Liberals don't bother me even if/when I disagree with them.
I will say this: there is a fringe group of liberals that are downright militants (same with the rest of the respective spectrum.) And, from experience, some of these liberals are downright scary in terms of what they are capable and want to do when people do not align to their collective thought. So, maybe the people who use use liberal(ism) as a derogatory term are talking about those fringe liberals.
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