Pogo
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Again, the fact that you and the OP intentionally misuse a term as if it means its own opposite, is not our problem. It's yours.
The intended corruption of the term "Liberal" has a history. It began in the Red Scare/McCarthy daze when the more wingnutty Republicans, out of power for two decades, were attempting to equate "Democrats", their rivals, with "communism". That required two stretches -- one, equating "Democrat" to "Liberal", and two, then conflating "Democrat" with "soft on communism". Ergo "Liberal" was supposed to be some kind of bad thing ----- even though it's what founded this country.
Kind of treasonous actually but hey --- that's Joe McCarthy for ya.
Also required a certain amount of Doublethink, since Democrats in the South like Wallace and Thurmond, were always railing against "Liberals". They at least were using the term correctly.
George H.W. Bush (and his driver Lee Atwater) used the same tactic in his 1988 presidential run, describing his rival Dukakis as an admitted "Liberal", as if that were a bad thing. It never has been, that's a bullshit self-serving tactic to paint an honorable part of our history as a negative. It's never been a negative and never will be, so go buy a fucking history book and clean up your own act.
Modern Liberals are the opposite of who the Founders were and what they believed...modern liberals believe in big government, tax and spend and the government intruding on individual freedom at every step........you can bitch and moan about it all you want...but that is the truth.....
Nnnnnope. That's the fantasy hallucination in your Doublethink head, where the same word means the opposite of itself. And you're apparently too dense to see it while you sit on your worm-infested ass hanging labels on other people as if you're in charge of them.
The actual history is what I just posted. That's why I posted the signatories to the Constitution --- a list of laudable Liberals, like it or lump it.
Modern Liberals.....the left wing stole the term "Liberal" because it meant limited government and personal freedom from government......and hid behind it as they pushed the exact opposite.....they lie about who they are so that morons like you will vote for them....
Wrong.
All you're doing is hanging your own inaccurate labels and then pointing at them like a fucking six year old.
And then when you're corrected you just golike a fucking five year old.
Good job Captain Wrongway.
Nope....liberal today stands for someone who believes in big government.....it now defines someone from the left wing of politics.....words change meanings no matter what they used to mean.......today liberal means a left winger.....that is why they are now calling themselves Progressives.......in order to once again hide who they really are....and progressive is another word they ran away from once it came to represent who they really were...now, they are going back to it...
They have to keep changing their names...to hide what they really want...bigger, more controlling government...
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"Liberalism" has zero to do with the SIZE of a government, ass klown. No more than it means in the OP's perverse fantasy "scumbags" to "root out". It has to do with how the government works and who has the power, DUMBASS.
The country got bigger--- way bigger --- since those Liberals I listed wrote its Constitution on the basis of Liberalism. Naturally the government is going to get bigger with it. That ain't got jack shit to do with the rule of law and a representative form of government.
Further, "Liberal" has never meant "left" except in the tiny minds of armchair wags like you who just parrot whatever you're told. "Liberal" "Left" and "Right" are three different things --- not two.