Liberals are solely responsible for all socio-economic trends of the last hundred years?!?!
You are not a liberal, you are a Bolshevik. You are "anti-liberal," seeking a central authoritarian state which owns all and dispenses as pleases whichever faction of looters is in control.
I am a liberal.
All westernized countries have went from agrarian to industrial to service economies.
An unsustainable model,
That means people go to the city where the real money is. You say liberals are responsible for raising this country up from a nation of ignorant, starving subsistence farmers to educated wage earners? I'll buy that.
I'm saying that leftists seek to drive the country to a dependent and miserable population of serfs who exist at the pleasure of a tiny elite who can and will dispose of them as easily.
The most recognizable feature of a liberal is the promotion of Laissez Faire Capitalism, which indeed is the motive power that transformed our world.
The motive power of you of the left is the lust to reestablish the feudal structures of old, concentrating all wealth in the hands of the state (the crown) where an impoverished masses serve the elite.
I am a liberal, you are a leftist. I am an advocate of the ideal of Mason, you are an advocate of the ideals of Stalin or Pol Pot.