I hate to lump people into strict categories, but I often hear many (not all) on the far right claiming that they are the only true patriots, and that liberalisim is almost some kind of mental illness.
But if you look at Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Adams, etc, they all seemed pretty liberal/progressive to me. They radically changed the status quo. They bucked the old system in favor of one with much greater freedoms for each individual. They championed the idea of human equality. The leaders weren't even Christians, but rather Deists and Unitarians.
If they HAD to be categorized, I would have a hard time describing them as conservative rather than liberal.
What do you think?
2007-03-02
16:13:51
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