When we get fed up enough to start a second party, “Liberal” may be a good name of course in the classical sense. The left isn’t using it anymore anyway.
That’s why most Liberals changed their names to Progressives.
“Coercion”?
They ARE DEMANDING political speech and conservative speech be made ILLEGAL!
They are PASSING LAWS demanding conservative ideas and beliefs (and ALSO conservative actions) be ILLEGAL.
So, like in ALL Communist countries, “enemies” are sent to prison for opposing the “State-approved” thought and speech and behavior. Now, “IF” yo are DOING the state-approved behavior - EVEN IF ILLEGAL (inviting and promoting illegal alien entry into the US - YOU ARE PROMOTED AND PAID AND REWARDED.
Even if the action “that the state likes” is illegal.
If the state “likes you” everything you do is legal, even if it is illegal.
If the state “doesn’t like you” everything you do is illegal, even if it is legal.
If one isn’t a member of the community organizer’s clan, then one is out in the dark — literally.
today's lie-beral when unfettered, tends toward tyranny and despotism. Here in MA, where lie-berals so rule, state legislature campaigns get union money but NOT corporate money. As a result, typical state rep race is $20,000 for the Republican and $100,000 for the 'Rat.
“Turning liberalsism into an instrument of coercion?” That is like turning water into , well, water.
“Liberal” as it is used today has nothing to do with LIBERTY.
Liberals are SOCIOECONOMIC FASCISTS. They want to control everything. They are the antithesis of freedom.
He didn’t turn it into a coercive entity, but he did perfect it. Of course one must understand that being faux black, homosexual, alien, muslim, and having serious mental problems helped pave the way for him.
Liberalism, socialism, communism, etc. -- the governing systems of the Left -- must necessarily rely on coercion.
Because the Left's impulse is to always force the governed into actions the governed would prefer not to undertake. The Left simply cannot govern by consent; therefore, it must govern by coercion.
It’s called “The Road to Serfdom”