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08 Jun 2020
Alex Jones calls for liberalism to be outlawed, which advocates for a totalitarian government rather than banning the Democratic Party.

So I'm sure Alex just thinks that he's calling for the political party he doesn't like to be outlawed, which is authoritarian enough, but what he's saying is actually worse. The term liberalism doesn't mean liberal or democrat or anything like that. I know Alex loves to quote encyclopedias, so here's the definition of liberalism from Encyclopedia Britannica. Quote, The philosopher John Locke came up with the concept of liberalism, which is defined as a system based on a social contract, where individuals have rights that governments cannot violate. When Alex gets on air and argues that liberalism should be outlawed, that has to be heard as a call for a totalitarian government, for one that's not based on the concept of individual liberty. I'm sure that's not what Alex means, but because he has no idea what the words he says mean, that is what he's advocating.