Liberalism

"Not to be confused with Progressivism and/or  Libertarianism."

Liberal Democracy (LibDem) or just Liberalism (Lib) is a centrist,  Culturally Center to  culturally left ideology which is regarded as being the "dominant ideology within the Western world. He is also dominant in some countries in Africa, although most African countries usually are  social democratic or  authoritarian. There is not much liberalism in Asia, except in Taiwan.

Proto Liberalism
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Enlightenment
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1800's
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1900's
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Modern Day
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Beliefs
Though liberalism is rather vaguely defined, and its definition alters depending on when and where the term is used, it is typically associated with values such as multiparty democracy,   civil liberties,  secularism,  progressivism,  internationalism, and a  market-based economy.

What separates Liberal Democracy from Classical Liberalism is an emphasis on social justice and social equality as compared with its predecessor. Liberalism tends to support moderate means-tested welfare targeted at the poor to ensure people can meet basic human needs. He, also with his dad, Classical Liberal, influences a lot of liberal ideologies.

Personality
Liberalism is often shown getting easily angered or "triggered" by others and is shown to not be the biggest fan of violence. He is often schooled in debates.

However, he also has a secretive, wiser side that often acts philosophical and just.

How to Draw
Lib_flag.svg Liberalism's design is based on a flag designed by u/Aransentin on r/neoliberal. The golden circle represents the world with the bars representing the invisible hand of the free market reaching around.
 * 1) Draw a ball with Eyes
 * 2) Make it blue (preferably (#006aa7) shade of blue)
 * 3) Draw a golden/yellow circle (#ffd700) and then make dents in it of the blue color. (Symbolizes the world being held by the invisible hand of the market)

You're done.

Friends

 * [[File:Clib.png]] Classical Liberalism - Love you dad! :)
 * [[File:Soclib.png]] Social Liberalism - My welfare loving, progressive nephew. I helped teach him everything he knows.
 * [[File:Socdem.png]] Social Democracy - Like the above, except a little bit extreme at times. I'm still really glad you chose me over [[File:Soc-h.png]] them.
 * [[File:Liberalconservative.png]] Liberal Conservatism - Tradition and freedom.
 * [[File:Libfem.png]] Liberal Feminism - Me, but feminist
 * [[File:Glib.png]] Green Liberalism - My green counterpart
 * [[File:Socliber.png]] Social Libertarianism - Free markets and moderated social justice is the center of the democratic system.
 * [[File:3way.png]] Third Way [[File:Third Way - alt.png]] - One of my most successful variants in recent years.
 * [[File:Cdem.png]] Christian Democracy & [[File:Islamic Democracy.png]] Islamic Democracy - My religious grandchildren! Even though the latter often degenerates into authoritarian ideologies like [[File:Ottoman.png]] Erdoganism.
 * [[File:Radlib.png]] Radicalism - Me, but radical, but at least not extreme.
 * [[File:European Federalism.png]] European Federalism - The European project is one of my biggest achievements, just federalize and get rid of some bureaucracies and you’ll be perfect.
 * [[File:ModEnv.png]] Moderate Environmentalism - The BEST form of environmentalism.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Prog.png]] Progressivism - I like your social values, but hate it when people confuse me with you, also drop down the socialism stuff please.
 * [[File:Liberalsoc.png]] Liberal Socialism - I like your dedication to liberal values, but socialism, I don't really like it... At least we both like attacking chuds on twitter for holding different views though.
 * [[File:Nalib.png]] National Liberalism - I appreciate your support for civil liberties, but your nationalism scares me.
 * [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] Neoliberalism - Based liberal, but the economy is too deregulated.
 * [[File:Conlib.png]] Conservative Liberalism - Aren't you LibCon again? No? Oh well.
 * [[File:Antifa.png]] Anti-Fascism - Look, I'm an anti-fascist too, but can you stop being so violent and beating up anyone who disagrees with you? Why dedicate actual time fighting people when we can go on twitter and peacefully complain about it. (Also, I like capitalism, can't you see that just a few reforms on healthcare would make America better?)
 * [[File:Kemal.png]] Kemalism - I am grateful to Atatürk for getting Fethi Okyar to found the Liberal Republican Party, but statism is stupid. Ataturk was too authoritarian but was better than the reactionary cuck Erdogan. At least modern Kemalists supports me.
 * [[File:ChiangKaiShek.png]] Chiang Kai-shek Thought - Lei Chen and Hu Shih supported you against the [[File:Mao.png]] commies, but why tf did you shut down the Free China Journal? Also, the white terror was mega cringe.
 * [[File:BoJo.png]] Borisism - Tbh, you confuse me a lot. Are you a libcon or a Trumpist? Brexit and right-wing populism are cringe, but at least you have some progressive social takes and centrist economic policies Ig.

Enemies

 * [[File:Statlib.png]] State Liberalism - NO YOU ARE NOT A LIBERAL! YOU ARE A DESPOT WITH PINK PAINT!
 * [[File:Natbol.png]] National Bolshevism - WORST OF THE [[File:Nazi.png]] [[File:ML.png]] TWO!
 * [[File:Euras.png]] Fourth Theory - Are you a Nazi or a commie? It’s confusing if you ask me.
 * [[File:Consocf.png]] Conservative Socialism - Moderate version of above.
 * [[File:Merc.png]] Mercantilism - You've had your time, now I'm the status quo, deal with it!
 * [[File:Trumpism.png]] Trumpism - OMG A MEANIE, HELP, HELP!!!!!!!!
 * [[File:Reactlib.png]] Reactionary Liberalism - Oh... Oh no...
 * [[File:Mao.png]] Maoism - Totalitarian genocidal commie who starved millions of his own people.
 * [[File: Stalin.png]] Stalinism - Same as the above, but somehow a bureaucratic nightmare.
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] National Socialism - Genocidal fascist maniac who killed tens of millions of innocents.
 * [[File: Dengf.png]] Dengism - Better than Mao but never forget Tiananmen Square Massacre. I would also never forgive for you conducting a literal genocide in Xinjiang.
 * [[File:Ilminism.png]] Ilminism - Why in god’s name did you always want to assassinate and prosecute my followers?
 * [[File:ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism - A totally failed ideology that killed tens of millions.
 * [[File:Ottoman.png]] Neo-Ottomanism - Why are you trying to bring Turkey backward culturally and religiously and arrest thousands of people in the emergency and those journalists just because they criticized you? Turkey once held more journalists in custody than China. Your authoritarian conservative behaviors are just completely unacceptable. Ataturk was far better than you.

Literature

 * | The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy by Dani Rodrik
 * Discourse on Inequality & The Social Contract by Jean-Jacque Rousseau
 * Emile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Wikipedia

 * Liberalism
 * Liberal Democracy
 * Economic Liberalism
 * Cultural liberalism

People

 * [[File:Cap.png]] John Locke (1672-1704) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
 * [[File:lincolnism.png]] Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Cap.png]] Max Weber (1864-1920) [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] Germany
 * [[File:FDRism-alt.png]] Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Keynes.png]] John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] United Kingdom
 * [[File:Truman.png]] Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Hushih.png]] Hu Shih (1891-1962) [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Republic of China
 * [[File:Necon.png]] Robert Menzies (1894-1978) [[File:Cball-Australia.png]] Australia
 * [[File:3princLib.png]] Lei Chen (1897-1979) [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Republic of China
 * [[File:JFK.png]] John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Lyndon_B._Johnson.png]] Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Anrad.png]] Karl Popper (1902-1994) [[File:Cball-Austria.png]] Austria/[[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
 * [[File:TrudeauLib.png]] Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) [[File:Cball-Canada.png]] Canada
 * [[File:KimDaejung.png]] Kim Dae-jung (1924-2009) [[File:Cball-South Korea.png]] South Korea
 * [[File:Giddenism.png]] Anthony Giddens (1949-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
 * [[File:Soclib.png]] Jimmy Carter (1924-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Soros.png]] George Soros (1930-) [[File:Cball-Hungary.png]] Hungary/[[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Clinton.png]] Bill Clinton (1946-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Hillary.png]] Hillary Clinton (1947-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Dem.png]] Francis Fukuyama (1952-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:StateathFedora.png]] Christopher Hitchens (1949-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK/[[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:ModPartyicon.png]] Carl Bildt (1949-) [[File:Cball-Sweden.png]] Sweden
 * [[File:Gore.png]] Al Gore (1948-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:New Labourism.png]] Tony Blair (1953-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
 * [[File:ModPartyicon.png]] Fredrik Reinfeldt (1965-) [[File:Cball-Sweden.png]] Sweden
 * [[File:ElonMusk.png]] Elon Musk (1948-) [[File:Cball-South_Africa.png]] South Africa/[[File:Cball-Canada.png]] Canada
 * [[File:Obamium.png]] Barack Obama (1961-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:VVD-icon.png]] Mark Rutte (1967-) [[File:Cball-Netherlands.png]] Netherlands
 * [[File:Synclib.png]] Nancy Pelosi (1940-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Honk.png]] Stephen Colbert (1964-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Fem.png]] Julia Gillard (1961-) [[File:Cball-Australia.png]] Australia
 * [[File:Mediastocracy flair.png]] Rachel Maddow (1973-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Macron.png]] Emmanuel Macron (1977-) [[File:Cball-France.png]] France
 * [[File:TrudeauLib.png]] Justin Trudeau (1971-) [[File:Cball-Canada.png]] Canada
 * [[File:DemocraticPartyKorea.png]] Moon Jae-in (1953-) [[File:Cball-South Korea.png]] South Korea
 * [[File:AungSanSuuKyi.png]] Aung San Suu Kyi (1945-) [[File:Cball-Myanmar.png]] Myanmar
 * [[File:DPP-Taiwan.png]] Tsai Ing-wen (1956-) [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] Taiwan
 * [[File:Pop.png]] Joko Widodo (1961-) [[File:Cball-Indonesia.png]] Indonesia
 * [[File:FDP.png]] Christian Lindner (1979-) [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] Germany
 * [[File:Sep.png]] Joshua Wong (1996-) [[File:Cball-HongKong.png]] Hong Kong
 * [[File:Socliber.png]] Andrew Yang (1975-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Bidenism.png]] Joe Biden (1942-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA
 * [[File:Cball-Belarus-old.png]] Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982-) [[File:Cball-Belarus.png]] Belarus
 * [[File:RussiaOfTheFuture.png]] Alexei Navalny (1976-) [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia
 * [[File:YeshAtid.png]] Yair Lapid (1963-) [[File:Zio.png]] Israel