Synthaholic
Diamond Member
If words have meaning... Then... No... A liberal is absolutely not a statist. I don't care if "democrats" consider themselves liberal or not. I don't care if "republicans" consider "democrats" liberals or not. They are NOT liberals. There is nothing wrong with liberals. There is something wrong with "democrats & republicans"definitions aren't discretionary. words have meaning.
Indeed. The reason I said that is because "liberal" used to mean liberty and less government intervention. Today, a typical liberal is a statist.
I don't think people should make up their own definitions for words. Society will naturally evolve a language and things might take a different meaning through time... That's alright. But find me a dictionary where liberal = statist.So, I left it open to be decided based upon how you define the word.
Right Wing World is actually doing just that. They are creating revisionist histories and getting them planted into textbooks across the southern U.S. They are changing definitions.