Spare us the references to 18th Century liberalism. Modern liberalism bares no resemblance to it.Hate to rock your world dear but you're here in a state of self-delusion pretending liberalism belongs in America and at the Founding.I'm here to defend the English language and its terms from rhetorical rape.
Sigh....
>> Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality.[1][2][3] Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support Civil rights, Democracy, Secularism, Gender equality, Racial equality, Internationalism, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press and Freedom of religion.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]I told you this as soon as you started this mindless retarded thread, Dumbass. Liberalism is the basis of the United States Constitution. If you can't handle it ---------- fucking leave.
Liberalism became a distinct movement in the Age of Enlightenment, when it became popular among Western philosophers and economists. Liberalism sought to replace the norms of hereditary privilege, state religion, absolute monarchy, the divine right of kings and traditional conservatism with representative democracy and the rule of law. Liberals also ended mercantilist policies, royal monopolies and other barriers to trade, instead promoting free markets.[11] Philosopher John Locke is often credited with founding liberalism as a distinct tradition, arguing that each man has a natural right to life, liberty and property,[12]adding that governments must not violate these rights based on the social contract. While the British liberal tradition has emphasised expanding democracy, French liberalism has emphasised rejecting authoritarianism and is linked to nation-building.[13]
Leaders in the Glorious Revolution of 1688,[14] the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789 used liberal philosophy to justify the armed overthrow of royal tyranny. << -- Wiki
End of story.
Sorry Fingerboy, I'm afraid your inability to navigate political (or any other) terms is not the terms' problem.
AGAIN, there are no temporal variants in what Liberalism is. It just IS, and there's nothing you can do about that. Not even sitting on the internet trying to pretend words mean their own opposites.