re: Please help me understand: Liberalism

I'll try to give a somewhat reasonable answer.

I think the main idea behind liberalism is that collectively we are stronger than the individual; that we should have government programs for healthcare etc. Liberals are fueled by evidence from countries like Canada and Sweden, which objectively are doing better than we are, so they assume we should adopt the same system those countries are using.

What they fail to acknowledge is that there are others, i.e. Italy, Greece, and France, that are completely failing on socialist policies. Also it's one thing to make something work in Sweden which is a small homogenous, wealthy country, and another to make it work here.