Good for you, Fred.  As long as "your brand" of socialism does not lay claim to my labors, body, property or family and respects the natural born rights of humankind, then you can lead whatever socialists club you like.  My heart and soul is for Freedom, not democracy, and I have plenty to give without your brand of socialism's compulsion.  Hitler had a "brand" of socialism that came right from his heart and soul, too, so did Lenin, Mussolini, Castro, and Mao.

I would prefer to address your numerous posts on the benefits of socialism where they are.  You seem confused:
"Socialism is the idea that we use our social abilities to change the world."
What dictionary did this come from?
"You just have meaningless labels."
The labels of liberal or reformer are not meaningless, as I have explained..

No, 'We' are the People, not the government.  We the People have chartered a government of laws not of men.

A republican form of government is strictly bound to a Constitution and a Bill of Rights that explicitly define limits to power.  The rights of the People are antecedent its government and cannot ever be legislated away.  The people elect their representatives in government.  So the government is subservient to the people. 

'We' are not the government; the People have created the goverment, and since the government has no jurisdiction over We the People, you can say we 'govern' ourselves by every individual governing himself/herself.  I govern myself; you govern yourself, and we respect each others' rights.  Thomas Jefferson describes a republican form of government:

“The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent ...

- To let the National Government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations ...
- The State Governments with the Civil Rights, Laws, Police and administration of what concerns the State generally.
- The Counties with the local concerns, and each ward direct the interests within itself.

It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.”

Sorry, Simply repeating the same false projection with exclamation points is not an argument.

The root of the word liberal is liberalis (suitable for a freeman, generous) and liber (free).  A person who is liberal is open-minded or not strict in the observance of orthodox, traditional, or established forms or ways.  To be free is to be unrestrained in form, the only 'reformation' is from being in a state of restriction to being unrestricted.

The classical liberal is ever standing up against claims upon his person, labors and property.  The American republican form of government is based on classical liberalism — republicans are true liberals.

To 'reform' is the method to one's freedom.  Once free, the liberal protects his freedom — so the liberal is also a conservative.  A liberal is a freeman, and to maintain that freeman status the person must take responsibility for it and act in its defense against so-called 'reformers' with designs on him.

Today's "liberal" reformers are but followers of the religion of Power, to "eat the rich" and "burn it down."  Their goal is not Liberty but subservience and perpetual 'service' to the State.  THAT is socialism, so say the socialists themselves.  They call that "equity" and apparently the freeman must give up his liberty to make things "fair."

Just goes to show the government is at war with the People.

Those in seats of power cannot be trusted, hence a republican form of government to protect against the wiles of power-hungry politicians appropriating wealth and property from the People.  We are never to trust the government — we are to keep them in check.

an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.

Not when one is trying to reform a liberal program.  'Liberal' doesn't even mean liberal anymore, it means statist.  And statist programs are in need of reform as soon as they are implemented.

The key words being "concept" and "appears."  It all depends on who gets to coordinate and plan who's lives.  Regulated life is servitude, plain and simple.

I haven't ever witnessed Canadians stand up for Freedom until the Freedom Convoy.  Liberals have long given up on Liberty for an illusion of safety — through ever-increasing draconian measures.  What can citizens of countries without a Bill of Rights do to resist state oppression?  Not much...

I guess this means most of the world's governments are not nearly in the center...  The US, Canada, Australia, France, lead the way in authoritarian power grabs using the pandemic as a pretext while doing everything they can to dis-empower any citizen who expresses dissent.  Freedom hangs by a thread as the Great Reset aims to re-write the rules of society worldwide.  Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...

See the Summer of 2020 and the Antifa occupations — no charges.  Whereas in Canada, the RCMP will be tracking down every person that waved a flag on Parliament Hill in protest of mandates shutting down people's lives.  Those that sent in a $50 donation have had their bank accounts frozen and insurance cancelled.  Scratch a liberal, find a authoritarian.

Servitude remains the #1 racket in the world.

What a topsy-turvy world in which rioting and mayhem is "peaceful" while gathering peacefully at the nation's capital for a redress of grievances is an "insurrection."

This may be my favorite P.J. O'Rourke quote.  ;-)

"There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."

P. J. O'Rourke always hits the nail on the head.

Every totalitarian regime has disarmed the populace.  An armed citizenry is the primary defense against servitude to the State.

Amen

Indeed.

This has not aged well...

That's a pretty broad brush.  It completely negates your statement.

But not from a lack of trying...

Spoken in the days when the People could acknowledge "that great and glorious Being Who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, or will be..."  The secularization of America has opened the doors to atheistic communism's religion of Power that has since hijacked the republican form of government. 

They have taken over the currency, switching from gold and silver money to interest bearing IOU's (a fundamental communist plank), the public schools have been turned into indoctrination camps to disempower children and to re-write history.  Urban plantation's vote in nearly every capital city overrides the working families in the rest of the country — and elections are increasingly fraudulent — as the communists say, "it's not the voting but the counting."

Government bureaus with no law making authority are imposing rules on the People, requiring they be injected with a brand new, never tested before on humans, "vaccine" that is not a vaccine but an experimental gene therapy that actually makes you sick forever to stimulate the immune system, when in fact it weakens immune systems considerably month after month.  And unlike any other vaccination, if there are adverse reactions, the pharma companies (and the government) have given themselves 100% immunity from suits for damages.

This is world war, plain and simple.  The Western nations are being brought to their knees by leftist governments.  My god, Hitler never had such a reach, and the USSR couldn't even pull this off.

It is a Chinese takeover, with all the Western politicians in their pockets doing the heavy lifting.  China is the biggest beneficiary of all this, and it is absolutely intentional.  They managed to fix the US election (hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots and phony IDs have been seized coming from China).  The Biden's have been helping China for decades — follow the money.

How can we get out of this if we continue to be dependent upon Chinese goods?  I went Christmas shopping the other day, and wondered how empty these stores would be if there were no Chinese products?  Every appliance, TV, plastic spoon, or toy would be gone.  These products are made with communist slave labor — not just the Ugyars but the majority of the population.

We must get back on track to defending Freedom and lawful Constitutional government — end the states of emergency which are long past due.  Tear down this wall!  

Let us stand up against these obvious power plays designed to destabilize American life and foment civil war. And in the words of George Washington, with the help of Divine Providence we will succeed.