With liberalism you get this - liberty.
Liberty rocks. The Founders were liberals. Now, why don't you understand this? You should be all over defending liberty like white on rice but you aren't. Why so?
Depends on what you define as liberty? And what you define as liberal? If liberal to you is synonymous with progressive, then no, you probably do not wish for true liberty. Since progressivism is a continual progression towards communism/socialism, with each step taken, increasing government control. Packaged as removal of responsibility for citizens, what it actually does is remove choice. It's an ever increase of government can solve your problems, to what end, no one really knows for sure. Opposed to citizens solving problems, and usually making a pretty penny when they succeed in making the world a better place. It is at best the good of the many out weighs the good of the few, VS the good of the individual. What it usually winds up as, is a power structure that becomes self serving, and very very inefficient. But it comes in a very nice package of "we'll take away that pesky responsibility you have to deal with."
Actual liberty means minimal government (both in size and control), maximum individual freedom. The bigger their government, the smaller the citizen. The more liberty one has, the more responsibility they have as well. If they make bad choices, well it's on them. If they learn and start to make better choices, it's also them.
And if the lady in the picture you posted wants to wear that, whatever her reasons may be, have at it. Not hurting you or I. Who cares? If you're a person who does care, worry about your own shit, and get out of others business. The same people who spend time complaining about that will probably drive by the Amish, and say how cute. I drive by them all the time, I actually have some admiration for their way of life, they seem quite happy. The point is, if they're not hurting or stealing from you, who gives a shit? We shouldn't have government step in, and you should probably mind your own business. That's what freedom is, keep government out, unless they really need to be in it, let the pieces fall where they may. As Kant put it beautifully in "What is enlightenment."
"Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large part of mankind gladly remain minors all their lives, long after nature has freed them from external guidance. They are the reasons why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor. If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on--then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me. Those guardians who have kindly taken supervision upon themselves see to it that the overwhelming majority of mankind--among them the entire fair sex--should consider the step to maturity, not only as hard, but as extremely dangerous. First, these guardians make their domestic cattle stupid and carefully prevent the docile creatures from taking a single step without the leading-strings to which they have fastened them. Then they show them the danger that would threaten them if they should try to walk by themselves. Now this danger is really not very great; after stumbling a few times they would, at last, learn to walk. However, examples of such failures intimidate and generally discourage all further attempts."
