Liberal Conservatism

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Not to be confused with Conservative Liberalism or Libertarian Conservatism.

Liberal Conservatism, often shortened to LibCon is an economically centre-right to right, culturally moderate but generally right-leaning and usually centre to authoritarian-leaning on the lib-auth axis, ideology. Liberal conservatism incorporates the  Classical Liberal view of minimal government intervention in the economy, according to which individuals should be free to participate in the market and generate wealth without government interference. However, unlike most liberals, liberal conservatism emphasizes trying to conserve this worldview and views any attempts to challenge it as an existential threat. They are also unafraid to be called conservative, even if they're often more socially liberal on certain issues.

History

Historically, conservatism in the 18th and 19th centuries comprised a set of principles based on concern for established tradition, respect for authority, and religious values. This form of traditionalist or classical conservatism is often considered to be exemplified by the writings of Joseph de Maistre in the post-Enlightenment age. Contemporaneous liberalism, now recalled as classical liberalism, advocated both political freedom for individuals and a free market in the economic sphere. Ideas of this sort were promulgated by John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, who are respectively remembered as the fathers of liberalism, including economic liberalism, the separation of church and state, social liberalism and utilitarianism.

According to scholar Andrew Vincent, the maxim of liberal conservatism is "economics is prior to politics". Others emphasize the openness of historical change and suspicion of tyrannical majorities behind the hailing of individual liberties and traditional virtues by authors such as Edmund Burke and Alexis de Tocqueville as the basis of current liberal conservatism which can be seen both in the works of Raymond Aron and Michael Oakeshott. However, there is general agreement that the original liberal conservatives were those who combined conservative social attitudes with an economically liberal outlook, adapting a previous aristocratic understanding of natural inequalities between men to the rule of meritocracy, without directly criticizing privileges of birth as long as individual liberties were guaranteed. Over time, the majority of conservatives in the Western world came to adopt free-market economic ideas as the Industrial Revolution progressed and the aristocracy lost its power, to the extent that such ideas are now generally considered as part of conservatism. Nonetheless, the term liberal is used in most countries to describe those with free-market economic views. This is the case in continental Europe, Australia, and Latin America.

United States

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Europe

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Germany

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United Kingdom

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Variants

Poroshenkoism

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Berlusconism

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Kernesism

Kernesism is ukrainian regional type of Liberal Conservatism. Kernesism is ideology of Gennadiy Kernes that was a mayor of Kharkiv during 2010-2020 years.
Kernesism is corruptionary doctrine and cronyistic. The party of Kernes was "Block of Kernes — Succesfull Kharkiv".
Kernesism is oppositionary ideology to ukranian government and russophilic.
Kharkivians thinks that Kernes was the good mayor and love him even after his death in December 2020.

Romneyism

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Personality

LibCon's personality is that of a nerdy politician that is fiercely scared to lose voters (aka kinda boring, but not too boring). He tries to compromise with both liberals and conservatives by adopting some of their policies. They don't always backfire, however, both of these groups still hate him. Basically the combined personalities of George H.W. Bush, John McCain, John Kasich, David Cameron, Angela Merkel, Mark Rutte and of course, God Emperor Mitt Romney. He may also act like Hank Hill from King of the Hill.

LibCon also really likes reading and money.

Others define him as "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" but the term "liberal" has been erroneously associated with the left nowadays (especially in the US), so he tries to associate himself with Classical Liberalism.

How to Draw

Flag of Liberal Conservatism
  1. Draw a ball with Eyes
  2. Draw a Blue (top) and Red (bottom) bicolour
  3. Draw a white ball in the middle of the bicolour
  4. Draw four red lines on the white ball coming from the bottom left

And You're Done!

Color Name HEX RGB
Mostly Red #DE0100 222, 1, 0
Strong Blue #1404BD 20, 4, 189
White #FFFFFF 255, 255, 255


Relationships

Friends

  • Globalism - Free trade is what makes the world prosperous!
  • Moderatism - BORING GANG! (Please vote for me.)
  • Theodemocracy - Thank you very much for voting for me!
  • Civic Nationalism - My nationalist counterpart. As long as they come here legally. Time to make that as difficult as possible.
  • Neoconservatism - Besides that schism we caused in the Republican Party in the 2000s, we're alright. (Don't make me cut the military budget though).
  • Classical Liberalism - My last friend left that hasn't changed a bit. Love you, gramps!
  • Neoliberalism - Though I don't like how woke you can be these days, I've still learned a lot from your economics. Reagan and Thatcher are my heroes!
  • Conservative Liberalism - My more conservative but less statist uncle! Basically a more radical version of me!
  • Rockefeller Republicanism - RINO before it became mainstream. Thanks for the inspiration!
  • Fiscal Conservatism - Slashing Budgets? Lowering Deficits? Pinch me, I must be dreaming!
  • Christian Democracy - In some countries we're almost the same thing.
  • Syncretic Liberalism - Some reasonable advocates of you in America seem to like me quite a lot, and you're very agreeable too.
  • Progressive Conservatism - You're pretty similar to me, but at the same time you're not... Eh, never mind. Thanks for the votes!
  • One-Nation Conservatism - My slightly more economically lefty UK counterpart. Disraeli was a hero!
  • Third Way - Thanks for welcoming me to your faction after most of us left when Trump started running. Sometimes based economics, Hilary was ok back in the day and we both aren't really that different. However, Obama's Environmental regulations and Obamacare were a weak decision.
  • Libertarianism - We're almost a match but he complains that I'm too statist, anti-cannabis and compromise with Neoconservatism. Still, I like him and he's been a good middle during The Neutered Communist Grandpa and Far-Right Orange Maniac.

Frenemies

  • National Liberalism - Fellow Right-Liberal, but he's way too nationalistic and somewhat racist for my tastes. But at least he's not like that fool. I'm sorry you got ruined by them.
  • Liberalism - Well I'm a liberal so I can at least expect you to be voting on my side- WAIT, WHY ARE YOU VOTING FOR SOCLIB?!
  • Conservatism - We're both conservatives so I expect you to be voting for me- OH COME ON, WHY ARE YOU VOTING FOR NATCON?!
  • Dengism - I like to say that I hate you because of your authoritarianism but surprisingly many of my followers (Bush I, Merkel, Piñera, etc.) defend you for some reason.
  • Paternalistic Conservatism - Neutered socialist, but tolerable. I guess I'll incorporate some of their policies so I can get some votes.
  • LGBT Conservatism - Gay rights are needed for a functioning and successful society! Drop the "T" and we're fine, also depending on what's politically expedient I may say something about gay adoption, please vote for me anyway.
  • Classical Conservatism - Waaaaay too traditionalist for my tastes.
  • National Conservatism - Not a fan of his fanatical conservatism and nationalism, but we have to work together. I'll also incorporate some of their policies so that mainstream conservatives will like them more and thus get some more votes woohoo.
  • Erdoğanism - You used to be so cool in the 2000s. What happened to you?!
  • Alt-Lite - You'd better grow out of this edgy phase before it's too late!
  • Borisism - Some of your views align with mine and I still like you over him, but your authoritarianism and euroscepticism rub me the wrong way...
  • Thatcherism - You did a good job. But your woke children destory it and you have a somewhat "Far-Right" fanbase.

Enemies

Further Information

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Citations

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "2019 Ukrainian presidential election#Ukrainian television coverage." Wikipedia

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