I am genuinely curious, so please be honest.
Does anybody know that modern liberals in the United States are absolutely not liberals?
A liberal is a rational person who believes in natural rights and a free economy.
A liberal is one who would advocate less government control of people's income, business ventures, reproduction and even smoking one thing or another.
Liberty is a natural state. Government does not provide liberty. Government is a necessary evil that should be prevented from taking liberty willy-nilly.
Many Republicans prefer to forfeit liberty to make the country look and act in ways they are comfortable with and Democrats, generally mislabeled as 'liberals', are downright abusive of the natural rights of citizens, except when it comes to abortion or pot.
Had anybody heard of classical liberals before and does anybody else cringe when they hear anti-liberty zealots referred to as 'liberals'?
2007-11-16
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