Real liberal

Real liberal

Real liberal was first introduced as a term by the German-American political scientist John Herz. Herz defined realist liberalism as a feasible combination of political reality on the one hand and indiviual idealism on the other.

Of course, it is desirable for everyone to enjoy complete freedom at all levels. However, reality often looks different, because laws and regulations in many cases restrict the rights to freedom again. Restrictions on freedom are rightly formulated as early as in the Ten Commandments, because these regulated, as it were, the coexistence of people in the first communities, groups and peoples. Today, almost 8 billion people live on earth. Without certain restrictions on personal freedom for all, we would be dealing with global anarchy.

No one will want this. For this reason, we associate the term real liberal with courage and responsibility. Every family, every company, every association, every democratic community and its structures need statutes and rules. Without these, neither a company nor an association can be run or a country governed.

We enjoy some of the freedom of travel, but we also know that at many borders this freedom is severely restricted again. In our jobs or at work, we can't do what we want either. Nevertheless, we (still!) live in one of the freest societies in the world.

This approach of real liberalism should not and must not be upgraded to ideology. Rather, a reasonable approach to a new, tolerant understanding of politics should be created, the goal of which is a real maximum of personal freedom, with simultaneous recognition of necessary individual restrictions.