What are some major differences between today's Liberals and classic liberals?

Question

stev - the "Kent State" Liberals are not classic liberals.

Longhair - at least you know the difference. Now, if you could only see how wrong you are about today's Liberals, everything will be alright. Take it one day at a time. Recovery is hard, but you can do it.

Captain - Between the two, I would have to say classic liberals possess more sanity than today's Liberals.

Answer 1

There's a huge difference, but it's not like what some of the previous repliers have answered.

Today's Liberals (Note: big 'L') espouse an ideology that is based upon a welfare state; i.e.: a welfare state: heavy government involvement/intervention in the individual's daily life, heavy government involvement/intervention in the regulation of the economy and the market. The more correct term for this would be social liberalism.

Classical liberalism (Note: little 'l') is a political ideology that is the opposite. It stresses the importance of individual rights, a free market economy, and minimal government involvement/intervention in either area (laissez-faire).

Answer 2

Liberals have a delusional Utopian view of what us of a must be like, with loose well being take care of all, loose preparation, loose housing, and no pollution. they even trust a assassin ought to no longer be positioned to lack of existence yet an innocuous little you ought to. they trust if you're making too a lot money you're by some skill exploiting others and must be punished. Conservatives are real looking and recognize that no longer some thing is loose. those courses will stifle the entrepreneurial spirit of the country and make us each and every of the undesirable human beings Libs insist we ought to continually help out with our money. truly, youthful and dumb human beings are Liberal, even as older wiser human beings are Conservative.

Answer 3

Longhair? has nothing to do with Liberals today and classic liberals. They come in all kinds of disguises. All are born that way.

Answer 4

Today's liberals have no guts. Men like JFK stood up and gave equal rights in a time when that could easily get you killed. And it did. Men like FDR healed a nation in time of war and re-built a failing economy. Today's liberals sit on their hands while a criminally incompetent President runs amok in the Middle East. Being a liberal used to mean being about making America a better place. Today it means passivity and betrayal of its constituents

Answer 5

both exist, just the same as the right wing nuts exist along with the reasonable Republican...it's really not the differences between the 2 major parties as much as the difference between the extremists on either end.

If this is about "bashing" a president with the credibility of Nixon without the criminality...then I'm guilty...Bush is a horrible president and I am a classic Liberal..I just maintain my right to freedom of speech

Answer 6

There is no difference unless you subscribe to the right-wing hate media definition of Liberal as today's Liberals then the difference is like night and day.

Answer 7

For one, "classic liberals" stood by their leader, regardless of party affiliation, through national hardships. They didn't bash him at every opportunity. Good question.

Answer 8

classic liberals had some common sense, today's liberals are just plain crazy.

Answer 9

Libertarian: somebody who believes in the principle that people should have complete freedom of thought and action

Answer 10

Nothings changed. Take it from an Ohioan who was around during the Kent State days.