Religion, liberalism, socialism, conservatism - the past casts long shadows

Change is good and should be used to improve many peoples lives

Is change fundamentally good regardless of outcome? Or only good if the outcome improves peoples' lives? Do the methods of how one goes about such change factor into whether it is considered good?

The pace of that change is less important

Is it okay therefore to completely stagnate if the pace of change is less important?

Bad policies and practices of the past should be undone

What is considered "Bad" and likewise what is considered "Good"?

Government can and should be an agent for those change

Hypothetically if the government in question is an authoritarian one, can it still be and should be an agent of change?

People are fundamentally good

How so?

Genetics has replaced any thoughts of a blank slate

Do genetics imply people are fundamentally born good and not neutral?

Globalization of trade and travel is erasing racism and cultural biases

Or is it exacerbating it? ex. China/COVID-19.
 
My post was a list of my thoughts on "what is a liberal". The list contains the values that I think liberals hold. You are raising the issue of whether or not such values reflect life's reality. Those are not the same. If a liberal (or anyone) says "people are fundamentally good," it is not a statement that all people are always good. It is a perspective that thinks positively about human nature. In each of the cases you have quoted the same perspective question arises. How one might implement those values is a different question than whether or not liberals hold those values.

Each of those might well be worth its own discussion but that is not relevant to whether or not liberals hold those values.
 
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