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Leave it to a socialist to deny reality, eh?WRONG.Radical Liberal......as our Founders were Liberals of their age.Thomas Paine was one of the first people to advocate for the abolition --- now tell me....was Thomas considered a liberal or conservative?I am aware of what political ideology it was that advocated for the rights of women to vote -- and it damn sure wasn't conservative...Actually, the women's suffrage movement was originally closely tied to the anti-slavery movement.
Aren't you aware of what party that was?
Why do you idiots always avoid the fact that conservative and liberal are the main constants in US political history and not parties??
Try CLASSICAL LIBERAL.
Classical liberalism - Wikipedia
"Classical liberalism is a political ideology and a branch of liberalism which advocates civil liberties under the rule of law with an emphasis on economic freedom. Closely related to economic liberalism, it developed in the early 19th century, building on ideas from the previous century as a response to urbanization and to the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States.[1][2][3] Notable individuals whose ideas contributed to classical liberalism include John Locke,[4] Jean-Baptiste Say, Thomas Robert Malthus, and David Ricardo. It drew on the classical economic ideas espoused by Adam Smith in Book One of The Wealth of Nations and on a belief in natural law,[5] utilitarianism,[6] and progress.[7]"
Don't dare try to compare the modern day big statist left with the founders, they are NOTHING alike.
The modern left is much more like KING GEORGE.
"Liberal" is not "left". Nor is it "statist".
If one is conflating either of those with "Liberalism" then one is simply misnaming them as such. Don't do that.
"Liberal" means Liberal. It isn't "classiical", it's simply Liberal. "Classical" is a Goldbergian weasel-word to try to twist a term he finds inconvenient into its own opposite. You can't have a word that means opposite things. There is no "cold fire".
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