I am talking about the assholes of today, not the bullshit of 200 years ago you're vainly trying to apply to today's America.Very weak, arsehole, because you want to limit Liberalism in any given Thread to a specific topic.Because the Founding Fathers were in favor of Gay Marriage and Bestiality, not to mention welfare and the popular vote.There is no "classic" Liberalism. Liberalism is Liberalism, period. The fact that you or some other wag doesn't have a clue what it means, ain't the word's fault.
You cannot use the same term to mean its own opposite. Once you do that your words have no meaning.
Ah, yes I see what you did there.
Ummmmm nnno Sparkles. Because the Founding Fathers were in favor of power derived from the consent of the governed, rather than from the aristocracy and clergy. Because they figured out that free expression is crucial to an open democratic society and that We the People trumps They the Government. Which is in a nutshell what Liberalism is.
But Liberalism doesn't work that way.
It creeps into every fiber of a society and demands that if it feels good, it is good.
And that what destroys nations.
Liberalism has nothing to do with "feelings". Perhaps you're confusing Liberalism with a really bad 1970s pop song.
Again, any given wag's inability to use the term properly, is not the term's fault. It's the user's.
But nice try anyway.
That's just it --- you're talking about "assholes of today". Liberalism is not a person. It's a philosophy. And whether you think that philosophy is 'bullshit' or not, it did write the Constitution and found this nation, so it by definition "applies" to today's (US of) America. And yesterday's.
I understand what y'all are doing --- y'all pick up a term y'all don't understand and want to play with it like a toy. Well, Mommy says no.