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Originally Posted by Mick
Correct, liberal now has new meanings, let's start with not accepting democracy.
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In your mind, yes, In reality, no.
If you fail to accept that anyone who disagrees with you can have a valid point of view then you will see, like Trump does, enemies all around. What is, to most objective observers, a broad church of media opinion is to Trump and his alt-right followers a conspiracy of lies and fabrication.
For God's sake, he even banned the Daily Mail from the informal press briefing!
When you get to this point in your perception of reality, then yes, you will see life through a very different lens. This allows you to justify many things that range from just bad manners to opinions that are, on a number of levels, plain disturbing.
Trump and more importantly Bannon are using excuses of media bias, political correctness, fear of Muslims, globalisation, etc. to push through an agenda that would be, to people voting in past elections, an anametha.
We are at a point where the US citizens either allow the alt-right, protectionist & nationalist agenda to play out with some very alarming scenarios or they try and engage through peaceful protest together with the gradual erosion of Republican majority in the House in the 2018 elections and try to reduce and/or stop some of the more damaging policies that could be put forward.
Let's hope that they are successful since what Trump does in the US *will* impact us and the rest of the world.