If the murderer considers himself a member of the Democrat party there is a very good chance he may choose to describe himself as a liberal. The fact is that many Democrats identify themselves as liberals:
"In 2015,
more Democratic voters identified as liberals (42%) than as moderates (38%) or conservatives (17%),...."
Democratic voters increasingly embrace the ‘liberal’ label – especially whites, Millennials and postgrads
An even larger percentage of voting Democrats also self-identify as liberals:
"
Fully 67 percent of Democrats who went to the polls there identified themselves as “liberals.”"
http://nypost.com/2016/05/04/thanks-to-obama-liberal-is-no-longer-a-losing-label/
Modern liberalism has also shifted in terms of beliefs:
Modern liberalism in the United States - Wikipedia
The possibility exists that Democrats don't understand what they mean when they say they are a liberal but this is understandable given that they are Democrats.
Too fking funny.
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"Democrat" does not mean "Liberal" Spunkles, nor does "left". They're independent of each other. Your inability to keep up with what you understand is your problem, no one else's.
Let's reprint a post that went into this from the thread "Liberalism vs. Leftism".
It wasn't the "left" who have attempted to pervert the meaning of "Liberal".
It was a faction of the right.
>> 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. <<
That goes back to the 1940s. The infamous McCarthy/Red Scare daze. A tool used by the intellectually unethical for their own gain.
George H.W. Bush used it, no doubt on Lee Atwater's dishonest advice (again, Atwater was another disciple of McCarthy's instigator Roy Cohn) against his opponent Dukakis, sneering "Liberal" as if it was a negative.
Then we've got this piece of Doublethink, suggesting a term can mean the opposite of
itself:
Check the subtitle. The author --- right on the cover page--- makes no bones about
intentionally conflating "Liberal" with "left". Stark intellectual dishonesty. Right on the front cover.
Oh and notice the author is also pulling the same stunt, "stuffing fascists and communists into the same basket" --- again right on the front cover --- to sell books, and veracity be damned. He's got every emotional bait-hook on there except the word "sex".
Then add to this the me-too echoes of the Lush Rimjobs, the Sean Inanitys, the Info Wars etc, making the same conflation and try to show the class how it's "the left"pulling this shinola.
And here add countless threads
including this most recent one, again trying to drag the concept of "Liberalism" through the mud, on the basis of ---- nothing whatsoever.
It's starkly clear that those who so conflate do so, and have always done so, because they're against the Liberal principles that created this country and its Constitution. Then they hide behind their own lies -- like the plainly Doublethinkian "liberal fascism".
That indeed was the point all along.
