You just made my point. You are equating liberal with leftist. I’m not a partisan so I have no interest in defending or attacking the left or the right, but I do prefer liberal values to authoritarian values.
I think a key contributor of the quagmire Covid has created is due to the public health response becoming a partisan issue.
You just made my point. You are equating liberal with leftist. I’m not a partisan so I have no interest in defending or attacking the left or the right, but I do prefer liberal values to authoritarian values.
I think a key contributor of the quagmire Covid has created is due to the public health response becoming a partisan issue.
The left long ago co-opted the term "liberal" and as they always do, changed the meaning of the word to refer to its exact opposite.
The word "liberal" comes from the latin "liber", which means free. Those that now call themselves "liberal" are its antithesis.
This is why I don't call them liberals, I call them leftists, an umbrella that covers the vast majority of the U.S. population, D, R, I and even more than a few L, all of whom favor countless State interferences with freedom.
To paraphrase Tricky Dick Nixon, the leftist who killed the last vestige of the gold standard, gave us the EPA, signed the War on Drugs into law, broke bread with and raised a glass to Mao, the most prolific mass-murderer in history:
"We are all progressives now".
'The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism.'
The answer to your questions is "yes". As to how I attempt "stand perfectly astride all social issues", I tend to judge most social issues based on the values I have, which I would guess are best defined as traditionally liberal. I also have an aggressive contrarian streak so my first impulse is to not agree with anybody.
You just made my point. You are equating liberal with leftist. I’m not a partisan so I have no interest in defending or attacking the left or the right, but I do prefer liberal values to authoritarian values.
I think a key contributor of the quagmire Covid has created is due to the public health response becoming a partisan issue.
The left long ago co-opted the term "liberal" and as they always do, changed the meaning of the word to refer to its exact opposite.
The word "liberal" comes from the latin "liber", which means free. Those that now call themselves "liberal" are its antithesis.
This is why I don't call them liberals, I call them leftists, an umbrella that covers the vast majority of the U.S. population, D, R, I and even more than a few L, all of whom favor countless State interferences with freedom.
To paraphrase Tricky Dick Nixon, the leftist who killed the last vestige of the gold standard, gave us the EPA, signed the War on Drugs into law, broke bread with and raised a glass to Mao, the most prolific mass-murderer in history:
"We are all progressives now".
'The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism.'
~ Ludwig von Mises, Interventionism, p.88
So... to be clear, you now agree that the technocrats state being created is leftist, as long as I don't conflate that with liberalism?
Not a partisan? How morally impressive! You must show me how you manage to stand perfectly astride all social issues.
The answer to your questions is "yes". As to how I attempt "stand perfectly astride all social issues", I tend to judge most social issues based on the values I have, which I would guess are best defined as traditionally liberal. I also have an aggressive contrarian streak so my first impulse is to not agree with anybody.