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1. gun control
2. the welfare state
3. government healthcare
4. income taxes
5. hatred of Christianity
6. political correctness
7. gay marriage
8. global warming
9. cap and trage
10 WIC
revolutionary does not mean "liberal"
...because most of those issues were relevant in the 18th century?
The founders were breaking all ties to traditional governance.
Remember that the right-wing masses of today are using a lexicon churned out by folks like Rush Limbaugh. They do not know or care to know the real meaning and history of social concepts.
Most don't know that 100 years ago, Republicans were proud to call themselves "Progressives" and were the leaders of women's rights, labor rights, and racial justice.
They were the National (as in NPR) German Socialist Workers Party.
"Workers" parties--and ones that add "Socialist" for emphasis--are in fact socialist. As are the people who show up at the porch of a function with the words "socialist workers" scribbled above the doorbell.
Next you'll claim Obama isn't a progressive too. The left should admit to and own up to its 'mistakes' throughout history.
Both nationalist (right wing) and Socialist (left) was used in its name to draw both political persuasions into the fold. Brilliant propaganda by the Nazi regime. Social democrats were eliminated by the thousands when Hitler gained full power. He was a fascist dictator.
1. gun control
2. the welfare state
3. government healthcare
4. income taxes
5. hatred of Christianity
6. political correctness
7. gay marriage
8. global warming
9. cap and trage
10 WIC
revolutionary does not mean "liberal"
See, I either have to insult your intelligence here or assume you just didn't read most of the posts. As an act of kindness, I'll assume it's the latter because you obviously missed the dozens of explanations that the term liberal, in the way that it's most used, is very vague and frankly mostly meaningless.
If we stick to a liberal vs conservative narrative and reduce both definitions the most most bare definitions available, liberalism is the party of change and conservatism is the party of sustenance. Liberals see a need to make changes to improve the conditions and conservatives feel things are fine the way they are. There is good and bad to both. Good liberalism is something like freeing the slaves and good conservatism is continuing to support a democratic process as it good of that outweighs the bad. The opposite here would be something like liberals creating a wealth redistribution plan that allows everyone technically equal pay, but the government gets to keep a huge portion (bad liberalism) or conservatives defending a corrupt statesman simply because he has been in office long enough and done good things (bad conservatism).
Interestingly enough, for the bad ones, neither a liberal or conservative would consider those just actions. Which is sensible enough. Again, this is because liberal and conservative are meant to represent opposing sides, and aren't actually clean cut ideologies.
The founding fathers were liberal. This does not mean they were modern democrats. Reread (or read for the first time I hope) all the responses that explain that. If in doing so you still think the way you do, then you are lost and no one can help you.
1. gun control
2. the welfare state
3. government healthcare
4. income taxes
5. hatred of Christianity
6. political correctness
7. gay marriage
8. global warming
9. cap and trage
10 WIC
revolutionary does not mean "liberal"
Times change. Conservatives don't. I'm surprised you don't all run around wearing powdered wigs.
It would blow some people's minds to read Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 "Bull Moose" speech. He hits every "liberal Progressive" bullet point except LGBT. Labor rights, women's rights, racial justice--it's all in there.
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