Liberal Democrats

Who?

Person 1: "Does the name Tim Farron mean anything to you?"

Person 2: "Nope."

Person 1: "Me neither."

Person 3: "Lots of weed and 16 year olds voting!"

Person 1: "ah... Now I remember"

Boris: "Jesus christ Nigel! Is that what I think it is?"

Nigel: "My God Boris! It's a one of those liberal democrats! I thought those things were extinct in Britain."

by A Sceptical Leftie October 28, 2017

Liberal Democrats

A collective noun for a group of moles.

“What is a UK political party that shares it’s name with the collective noun for moles?”
“For some reason Liberal Democrats is shouting out to me.”

“What is that group of mammals in your garden?”
“Oh, that’s just some Liberal Democrats.”

by Megalol9 October 18, 2021

Liberal Democracy

Chrystia Freeland recently used the term “Liberal Democracy” at the WiTW Summit. It basically means how to screw over an entire country with your BS left leaning ideals.

Chrystia Freeland states “If we want to live in a Liberal Democracy we can’t assume other people will make it exist and act and function for us”. I fully support a Conservative Democracy that’s based on common sense and responsible representation!

by Canadian eh! September 11, 2018

Liberal Democratic Orthodoxy

The established, institutionalized set of beliefs that define mainstream liberal democracy—the often-unexamined assumptions about elections, representation, rights, and the relationship between liberalism and democracy. Liberal democratic orthodoxy includes commitments: that elections confer legitimacy, that representation works, that rights protect freedom, that liberal and democratic values align, that liberal democracies are fundamentally just, and that the liberal democratic model is the end of political history. Like all orthodoxies, it provides a framework for political understanding, but it can function as ideology—making liberal democratic arrangements seem natural and inevitable, obscuring their limitations (exclusion, inequality, corporate power), and delegitimizing alternatives. Liberal democratic orthodoxy determines what counts as "democratic" versus "authoritarian," what political arrangements are "legitimate," and who counts as a "real" democrat versus a threat to democracy.

Example: "He couldn't see how liberal democracies might themselves be sites of oppression—not because he'd examined the question, but because liberal democratic orthodoxy had made critique of democracy itself unthinkable. The orthodoxy's power is making its objects immune to fundamental critique."

by Dumu The Void March 17, 2026

Crony Liberal Democracy

A liberal democracy where the formal guarantees of rights and freedoms coexist with systemic capture by elite networks. Free press exists, but it's owned by cronies; independent judiciary exists, but judges are appointed by cronies; competitive elections exist, but only cronies can afford to run; civil society exists, but critical organizations are defunded or harassed. The institutions of liberal democracy are preserved as a facade, but their substance has been hollowed out by the same networks that claim to serve them.

Example: "The constitution guaranteed freedom of speech, but every major newspaper was owned by a business group that financed the ruling party. Crony liberal democracy: rights on paper, capture in practice."

by Abzugal March 22, 2026