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That's not the gap. Not sure if you're lying or just stupid, though. Liberalism is about how you think as much as what. Putting an emphasis on science over other claims to knowledge (revelation, intuition, culture, etc.) is the key thing.
Lol. Like they put their faith in science during the pandemic???? I don't mean "THE science", I mean science as a method of rational thought. Everything liberals asserted during the pandemic was wrong. First, two weeks to slow the spread, then social distancing never worked and was absolutely arbitrary, then masks didn't work, then the experimental gene therapy injections didn't prevent spread, then the injections were said to be more effective than natural immunity. They lied about the endemic state of COVID-19.
You know who got it wrong? Mainstream liberal press. You know who got it right? Independent media, like Brand who were citing the actual scientific and medical journals on their shows. The liberal press was adhering to "THE science" like religious dogma. Maybe in the 90s they were more capable of research and critical thought.... Now they're religious zealots for the party; too lazy to read or think for themselves.
On issues, support for a market-based economy, representative democracy, and limited gov't are the main liberal issues (which allows for a very wide range on the left-right spectrum).
A market based economy that subsidized large corporations and passes policies to eliminate competition.
Representative democracy where the will of the donors trumps the will of the working class majority.
Limited government where the white house, regulatory and advisory agencies, and the intelligence community call for censorship of dissident voices from the shadows in order to keep the people "safe" from mis, dis and malinformation (a term coined to define true statements that the establishment doesn't like).
The fact that you can't look at these situations and see that people claiming to be liberal would be called something entirely different in the 90s is astounding.
Anti-censorship is a core liberal value (see above about limited gov't). He's definitely not to the left of Democrats on those other issues either.
Now you're just trolling. It's those claiming to be liberals that are pushing the modern censorship campaign. The fifth circuit called the censorship campaign the most dangerous infringement of free speech in modern times. The Biden administration, instead of realizing their error and apologizing, is appealing the decision in attempts to continue the government directed censorship.
Brand has railed against censorship. The global western liberal establishment is the primary culprit.
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