• America’s ‘Liberalism’ and Other Inhumane Styles of Governance At Home and Internationally | Global #Justice in the 21st Century
    https://richardfalk.wordpress.com/2018/02/25/americas-liberalism-other-inhumane-styles-of-governance-at-ho

    In American political discourse the word ‘#liberal’ denotes someone who is [..,] rabidly anti-Trump, but considered Sanders either an unrealistic or undesirable alternative to Clinton, and currently hopes for that the 2020 presidential contender will be chosen from familiar, seasoned sources, which means Joe Biden, or if not, then Sherrod Brown or Corey Booker (Senators from Ohio and New Jersey). This kind of ‘liberal’ thinking scoffs at the idea of Oprah or Michelle Obama as credible candidates supposedly because they lack political experience, but actually because they do not project an identity associated with the Democratic Party organizational nexus. Such liberals support Israel, despite some misgivings about the expansion of settlements and Netanyahu’s style of leadership, and continue to believe that America occupies the high moral ground in international relations due to its support of ‘human rights’ (as understood as limited to social and political rights) and its constitutionalism and relatively open society at home.

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