In preserving Australia's natural beauty and the environment for future generations. That our nation has a constructive role to play in maintaining world peace and democracy through alliance with other free nations. In short, we simply believe in individual freedom and free enterprise; and if you share this belief, then ours is the Party for you. The first records of liberal come from around What is considered liberal is often subjective.
It depends heavily on the beliefs or attitudes of the person using the word, especially in relation to the society or organization they belong to. For example, in the United States the word liberal is often used to refer to the Democratic Party and its beliefs, while the Republican Party is considered conservative. However, a person from the United Kingdom might consider both parties to be conservative, as neither one has historically argued for more liberal policies found in the UK, such as universal public healthcare.
What are some other forms related to liberal? Liberal is most often used to mean favorable to reform or progress, even when that is used as an insult. This thing where the minority of right wing Jews in America think they somehow have the authority to excommunicate the liberal-left majority from Judaism is really tiresome.
Our values are no less Jewish because we seek to apply them universally. Which of the following is a synonym of liberal? For the first time this century, a liberal Democratic candidate has a real shot at the seat, according to forecastsin the deep-red state. Obviously, the first obligation of all liberal democratic governments is to enforce the rule of law. To be a liberal , you have to stand up for liberal principles. The origin of the political left and right do actually have to with the physical directions, left and right.
Time for a history lesson. Left and right originally referred to seating positions in the French National Assembly, the parliament France formed after the French Revolution.
Relative to the viewpoint of the speaker chair of this assembly, to the right were seated nobility and more high-ranking religious leaders. To the left were seated commoners and less powerful clergy. Seating positions starting in the French National Assembly closer to the center likewise became associated with less extreme views. Center politics favor moderate positions. People holding these views are often called moderates.
Political independents often fall at the center of the political spectrum. Center-left refers to people, groups, or views that are just to the left of the political center in a country. Center-right refers to being a little bit to the right of center. And since we believe that future generations have the same rights as we do to live their lives in the ways they choose, we aim to create an environmentally sustainable economy and society , where people live in harmony with the natural world.
Holding these beliefs, Liberal Democrats are instinctively on the side of the individual against concentrations of power, free thinking, unimpressed by authority and unafraid to challenge the status quo.
The Liberal Democrats are the heirs to two great reformist traditions in British politics — those of liberalism and of social democracy. Like all political philosophies, ours is based on a view of human nature. The Liberal Democrat view is an optimistic one. We believe in the essential goodness and improvability of humankind — that, given the opportunity, in most circumstances most people will choose to do good rather than harm. Liberal Democrats trust individuals to make their own decisions about how they live their lives; no one else, whether politicians, clerics or bureaucrats, should have the right to decide for them how they should live.
The good society is one in which each individual has the freedom and the capacity to follow their own paths as they judge best. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. It is the love of liberty above any other value that marks the liberal out as a liberal.
We believe in the right of people to pursue their dreams, to make the most of their talents and to live their lives as they wish. Social justice matters to Liberal Democrats; we believe that it is the role of the state to create the conditions in which individuals and their communities can flourish.
So government needs to provide decent public services and an adequate welfare safety net for those in need. In particular, we place a high priority on good-quality education, the enabler above all else in liberating people, developing their talents and capabilities and ensuring that they can live their lives as they wish. Essential though these are, by themselves they are not enough. Inequality itself undermines the ability of everyone, throughout society, to live a good life.
Evidence clearly shows that the more unequal a society is the weaker it is: compared to societies with greater levels of equality, its citizens suffer from poorer health, lower educational attainments, higher crime rates, and lower levels of trust and co-operation. Government is justified, therefore, in reducing inequalities in income and wealth — as Liberal Democrats in coalition did, for example, through raising the income tax threshold and closing tax loopholes for the rich — and to correct other examples of inequality, for example through our introduction of the pupil premium, extra resources for schools to teach pupils from poorer family backgrounds who lack the educational advantages enjoyed by children from better-off families.
This is one dimension of the Liberal Democrat commitment to equality: that, as far as possible, everyone should have the same opportunities to make what they want of their lives. The other dimension of equality is the right of everyone to be treated equally and with equal respect, whatever their personal characteristics, such as race, gender, nationality, way of life, beliefs or sexuality. As Liberal Democrats we still pursue this quest for equality today — for example in legislating for same-sex marriage and in trying to close the gender and ethnic minority pay gaps.
We believe in the right of people to live their lives as they wish, free to say what they think and to protest against what they dislike, regardless of who disagrees with them, free of a controlling, intrusive state and of a stifling conformity. A free society that glories in diversity is a stronger society. Societies, governments, bureaucracies and corporations work best when the beliefs and maxims of those at the top can be challenged and disproved by those below.
Open societies learn and evolve; closed societies stagnate and fail. Individuals of course do not exist in isolation; we are embedded in social relationships which help to give our lives meaning and fulfilment. We are all members of different communities, whether defined geographically or through work, tradition, culture, interests or family. To function effectively, communities need to be able to exercise real political and economic power, taking decisions for themselves in the interests of their members.
We recognise, however, that communities can sometimes be illiberal and oppressive, restricting individual freedom perhaps in the name of tradition or the pressure to conform.
We believe in a tolerant and open society, in which every individual has a free choice of which communities, if any, to join or to leave and of what identity or identities to express. In general, societies which base their economies on free markets and free trade are themselves freer and fairer: markets are generally better than bureaucracies in matching demand and supply, allocating scarce resources and rewarding innovation and entrepreneurship.
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