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 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