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To riff off Marx, maybe this is "late stage liberalism." Maybe the paralysis Chris sees in the IDW is due to the internal contradictions inherent in its ideas.

The left's attitude is actually similar to Chris's: there's a problem - let's do something about it.

Of course the strategy is different. The basic strategy is "well, there are all these problems with inequality/oppression/exclusion. Problems that the classical liberals can't solve. We can solve them through undemocratic means by aggregating power in institutions, particularly educational ones." Of course it's dystopian, tyrannical social engineering at its core.

But it is "doing something" even though it's the wrong thing.

So what Chris is doing is not akin to classical liberalism, but more like what the Founding Fathers might have done transplanted to this situation: find what works to make a practical go of liberty for the foreseeable future. This is praxis, not theory.

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