How Is Liberalism Viable In The 21st Century

To what extent is liberalism viable in the 21st century?

Maleen Olver

To be liberal is to be constantly changing and evolving to create new and amazing things. To be liberal is to change, and change is inevitable thus making liberalism constantly relevant. As long as people continue to innovate and come up with new and better ideas, liberalism will be viable in our world. Every idea that has ever influenced the world was liberal at one point. The concept of a free market economy, and a limited democracy was considered liberal in it’s day. Giving black people and women the right to vote was also once considered a liberal standpoint, as well as gay marriage god forbid we allow to people of the same sex to love each other. Now thinking about

Once people realized that change was possible, they started to try and change things themselves. Before the industrial revolution people had no idea how beneficial the concept a free market economy could be, especially with the right to private property and the rule of law in place to prevent anyone from trying to take away from their success. Things began to change, factories were built, the caste system was somewhat eliminated by judging one’s worth based on money instead of birthright, and people began to make money. Years later we look at the industrial revolution and marvel at how we could have been stuck in a stiff monarchy if not for the liberal ideas of a few dreamers. We see the right to own property and the idea that nobody is above the law as a must, even though at one point it seemed

Maybe you think you’re done with the project, but come back in a little while and decide you don’t like how it no longer fits into the aesthetic of your new life. decide to change it up a bit, maybe changing the colour, revamping it a little, or completely changing the concept in general. The whole point is that you didn’t want to hold onto that old project, because it was no longer relevant, so you changed it. Society is the same way, why would you want to hold onto an old idea of a perfect society when it obviously doesn’t work anymore? If you are constantly adding something to it, your ideas and project will stay relevant. Maybe you agreed with the idea of women and black people being treated like real life human beings, but that’s as far as you go. you don’t want to move forward anymore, because you’re comfortable where you are. This was how modern society was for a little while after women received the vote. The government kind of just said that’s enough now, we’ve done enough for you if you want more too bad. And it stayed like that for a while until the 2010’s where the idea of social justice became wildly popular on the internet. Starting sensational viral campaigns like Gay is Ok and Trans Awareness. With the wonderful innovation of the internet, people were given the opportunity to start fighting for their rights outside of public protest and private ballot. People