westy, the term 'liberalism,' as used today, the colloquial, is synonymous with 'progressivism.'
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Hillary Clinton says she doesn't really like the descriptive word "liberal," preferring to be characterized as a "progressive."
"You know, (liberal) is a word that originally meant that you were for freedom … that you were willing to stand against big power and on behalf of the individual," she said at the CNN/YouTube debate. "Unfortunately, in the last 30, 40 years, it has been turned up on its head, and it's been made to seem as though it is a word that describes big government, totally contrary to what its meaning was in the 19th and early 20th century." She continued: "I prefer the word 'progressive,' which has a real American meaning, going back to the progressive era at the beginning of the 20th century.
I consider myself a modern progressive."
What Is a Progressive? by Joseph Farah
If you would like it used in its original meaning, you have to say 'classical liberalism.'
Oh bullshit. Progressivism was hanging around a century ago and is long gone. Liberalsim was here from the beginning, founded this country and fueld its Constitution.. Fascism is it polar opposite. You can't just plug in any old term just because you like the way it rolls off the tongue. That is an insult to historical research.
"Liberalsim (sic) was here from the beginning, founded this country and fueld its Constitution."
A total lie.
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The 'Greatest Lie"is the one that the modern Liberals tell. They claim that those called Liberals today are the liberals who founded this great nation. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Founders were 'classical liberals,' whose vision included . individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government. That's why they wrote out a detailed Constitution.
a. Communist John Dewey, the one who corrupted education in this country,
convinced the Socialist Party to change its name to 'Liberal.'And it's values and doctrines formed those called Liberals today.
The benefit to them, of course, is that the uninformed attribute the greatness of the Founders, of America, to them.
Again, total ******* bullshit. You conveniently cut out the part of the post that sends your bullshit term "classical liberalism" down the toilet. Let's see again what you edited out as inconvenient. Roll tape.
>> "Classical Liberalism" does not exist as such. Liberalism is Liberalism, period. You don't get to pull a word inside out and turn it into its own opposite by appending the adjective "Classical" just because you can't be bothered to appreciate what the term actually means We actually do have a word for that process. It's called "Doublethink". <<
Not bad. Roll another one, just like the other one....
Liberalism then, wrested the power from the theretofore-extant channels of the Clergy and Aristocracy (first and second Estates) and sent it to the Third Estate, which we call We the People. That's history, Spandexia, and you can't change it.
What you're trying to do here is nakedly transparent and has been so since the post-WW2 Red Scare era when your demogogue god Joe McCarthy tried the same thing --- conflate "Liberalism" with "leftism" and then proceed to dehumanize and denigrate both. And you do that because State-worshiping authoritarians like you just can't stand the idea of a government that declines to butt into people's personal lives declaring who they can hang with, what they can say and what religion they can follow. Scary stuff. Too bad. That's the Constitution and it ain't going nowhere, like it or lump it.
You're playing with the language as a strategy to break that down. Ain't gonna happen on my watch, snookums. You may as well abandon these façile oxymoronic flailing attempts to be clever such as "liberal fasist". That's the equivalent of "pacifist warmonger". It's not fooling anybody but the OP.
Pure projection. Outside of your own basement and keyboard you do not get to push your definitions on anyone else. It is quite obvious that you have an extreme and highly unwarranted view of yourself. It is a very common tactic of you Lefty's to try and control the language so that you can control the narrative. It won't play here sunshine

That tactic will only work in the shallow end of the pool.
Revealing "projection" indeed since absolutely NOTHING I posted was about "myself". Is our widdle butt hurt because we happened upon some new info we weren't ready for?

Guess what Gummo --- it's a discussion board. That's what happens.
Here, try this on for size, asshat.
>> One of the major problems in American political consciousness today comes from a misrepresentation of the political spectrum. This is partly the result of a deliberate effort to put all of America's enemies (fascists and communists) into the same basket after World War II, and a deliberate effort by the American "Right" to classify everything that they oppose as "Leftist". After World War II the Republican Party was struggling for survival and was in the process of reinventing itself. Part of the political strategy of some Republicans was to portray the Democratic Party of Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt as "Red," thereby associating "Liberalism" with "Socialism". It was a common tactic during the 1950s to accuse Democrats of being "Communists" or "Communist sympathizers", a tactic that worked well during the McCarthy era and has had a lasting impact on how Americans view politics.
... One of the first things that has to be done in order to properly understand the full spectrum of political ideas is to correct the popular misconception of the term "liberal" in America.
Liberal, in the classical sense of the word, simply means
a "hands off", or laissez-faire, policy. The United States is classically seen as an example of "liberal democracy," as George Washington stated in 1790:
The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.
Of course, these high ideals didn't exactly reflect the social reality in America at that time, where slavery was still widespread and bigotry of all kinds was still part of the social consciousness, but nevertheless the American government created by the founders represented a great advance for
liberalism.
America was founded on the idea that government was to play a minimal role in the affairs of society and the economy - that the job of the government was not to provide direction for society or the economy, but simply
to maintain a "free environment" were the public could conduct themselves as they so chose, as long as they didn't "infringe" on the "rights" of others ("others" at that time meaning white male property owners).
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the misuse of the term Liberal is itself part of the problem with how Americans view the political spectrum, so this needs to addressed and corrected.
What is the popular concept of "Liberal" in America today?
The current popular concept of "Liberal" is often "Leftist" and is associated with "big government," economic regulation, progressive taxation, and progressive social policy, such as support for gay rights, unlimited free speech and Affirmative Action.
With the exception of gay rights and free speech, none of these other issues are actually "Liberal" policies in the classical sense. Furthermore, liberalism, in either the classical sense or the current common usage, is not "Leftist" in a full political spectrum.
Liberalism views government like a referee, whose job is to maintain a level and equal playing field for individuals, ideas, businesses and institutions. Government is not to take sides or support any given view or organization. Conservatives, socialists, and others, i.e. the "Left" and the "Right", seek to use government to promote certain agendas, viewpoints, institutions, and interests.
This is critical to understand if one is to understand the political landscape of the 20th century. << (emphases added)
--- more, far more,
at the link, which somehow astoundingly manages to get through 30 pages without ever mentioning "me".
Again ---- this is a 70 year old McCarthyist bullshit tactic, the goal of which is conflation of terms leading to demonization of "Liberalism", our founding fuel, leading to the Authoritarian/fascist ein-Partei State that useful idiots like the OP really want. A State where they get to direct everything and anybody who doesn't like it can STFU. Again --- ain't gonna happen as long as We the People remain standing.