Once again, not liberalism, but progressivism.
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.