When did the word "liberals" appear in the United States?

[rupol2000]

This word is similar to a scam because it is a copy of the word "libertarian" but means the opposite flank of the left fag slaves.

In 80s, the right libertarian liberation movements were called liberals and they were members of the Liberal Union of Europe. Apparently it was a right-wing union, because the modern Hungarian right comes out of this movement.

 

[JGalt]

The word "liberal" is a misnomer. They're leftist faggots or Marxists.

 

[rupol2000]

The word "liberal" is a misnomer. They're leftist faggots or Marxists.

That's right, but you're also a leftist agent of the Marxists.

Previously, this word was in the US, say, before the 80s?

 

[JGalt]

That's right, but you're also a leftist agent of the Marxists.

Previously, this word was in the US, say, before the 80s?

The word "liberal" and how it pertains to the US, is often falsely attributed by the left to the Founding Fathers. The left equates "liberal" with "liberty."

The word you're looking for is "progressive." Most liberals think of themselves as progressives. And the progressive movement didn't arrive here until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was the writings of Marx and Engels and the Russian Bolshevik Revolution which pretty much spawned the progressive movement.

 

[1srelluc]

....the word “liberal”—as an adjective—was used to modify. Up to 1769 the word was used only in pre-political ways, but in and around 1769 such terms as “liberal policy,” “liberal plan,” “liberal system,” “liberal views,” “liberal ideas,” and “liberal principles” begin sprouting like flowers.

The Origin of 'Liberalism'

In the US it became vogue in it's more modern sense in the 1930s.

 

[rupol2000]

....the word “liberal”—as an adjective—was used to modify. Up to 1769 the word was used only in pre-political ways, but in and around 1769 such terms as “liberal policy,” “liberal plan,” “liberal system,” “liberal views,” “liberal ideas,” and “liberal principles” begin sprouting like flowers.

The Origin of 'Liberalism'

In the US it became vogue in it's more modern sense in the 1930s.

So this is a forgery of Roosevelt's left-wing Stalinists

 

[1srelluc]

So this is a forgery of Roosevelt's left-wing Stalinists

Can't say but what sort of surprised me was that the word "racism" was in use in the US 30 years prior.

 

[Delldude]

....the word “liberal”—as an adjective—was used to modify. Up to 1769 the word was used only in pre-political ways, but in and around 1769 such terms as “liberal policy,” “liberal plan,” “liberal system,” “liberal views,” “liberal ideas,” and “liberal principles” begin sprouting like flowers.

The Origin of 'Liberalism'

In the US it became vogue in it's more modern sense in the 1930s.

I read they used to call themselves progressives in the early 1900's. They tried ramming through all kinds of stupid ideological agendas and were voted away and took the name 'liberal' for over 100 years or so.....now they are doing it once again.

 

[JGalt]

I read they used to call themselves progressives in the early 1900's. They tried ramming through all kinds of stupid ideological agendas and were voted away and took the name 'liberal' for over 100 years or so.....now they are doing it once again.

A commie by any other name is still a commie.

 

[whitehall]

Political ideology often changes the meaning of words. The word "gay" used to mean happy. The Founding Fathers were true liberal thinkers but through the years the liberal philosophy has become synonymous with socialism.

 

[g5000]

When it was formed in 1854, the Republican Party was the liberal party. The Democratic party was the conservative party.

One wing of the Republican party was so far to the left, they were known as the Radical Republicans.

Over time, up to the 1950s, liberals and conservatives were pretty much evenly distributed in both parties. For example, Democrat JFK was a liberal but Democrat Governor Connally of Texas was a conservative.

The whole point of JFK's visit to Dallas on that fateful day November 22, 1963 was to convince conservative Democrats to vote for his re-election. That's why he had Connally in the limo with him.

The conservative Democrats of the Deep South were able to prevent passage of civil rights legislation for 75 years. It took a chameleon like LBJ to break the gridlock. The Republicans who voted with LBJ on the Civil Rights Act were liberals.

Radical Republicans - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[whitehall]

When it was formed in 1854, the Republican Party was the liberal party. The Democratic party was the conservative party.

One wing of the Republican party was so far to the left, they were known as the Radical Republicans.

Over time, up to the 1950s, liberals and conservatives were pretty much evenly distributed in both parties. For example, Democrat JFK was a liberal but Democrat Governor Connally of Texas was a conservative.

The whole point of JFK's visit to Dallas on that fateful day November 22, 1963 was to convince conservative Democrats to vote for his re-election. That's why he had Connally in the limo with him.

The conservative Democrats of the Deep South were able to prevent passage of civil rights legislation for 75 years. It took a chameleon like LBJ to break the gridlock. The Republicans who voted with LBJ on the Civil Rights Act were liberals.

Radical Republicans - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Say what? The democrats were conservatives and the republicans were liberals during the civil rights era? The truth is that democrats were racists during the 19th and 20th century and their extremist racism made republicans look like liberals.

 

[Seymour Flops]

That's right, but you're also a leftist agent of the Marxists.

Previously, this word was in the US, say, before the 80s?

Yes, I first heard it in the early '70's when I was about ten. It was talked about on the hugely funny show "All in the Family," which was about a Nixon conservative working class guy in Queens, whose daughter brings home her liberal son-in-law to live off of the working guy's hard work while he finished his useless degree.

This was from Hollywood, so of course the liberal was the hero. But it was the seventies when people were allowed to be funny instead of producing checked-for-liberal-purity propaganda, so the liberal guy was often shown to be hypocritical or just plain wrong sometimes.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I think I am out of my element, here.

After all, I minored in political science 50 years ago and this IS a Rupol thread..

 

[rupol2000]

Yes, I first heard it in the early '70's when I was about ten. It was talked about on the hugely funny show "All in the Family," which was about a Nixon conservative working class guy in Queens, whose daughter brings home her liberal son-in-law to live off of the working guy's hard work while he finished his useless degree.

This was from Hollywood, so of course the liberal was the hero. But it was the seventies when people were allowed to be funny instead of producing checked-for-liberal-purity propaganda, so the liberal guy was often shown to be hypocritical or just plain wrong sometimes.

Can I see the quote?

 

[rupol2000]

If progressives were already called liberals back then, then why the fuck were the neo-right eastern Europeans in the liberal union?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Can I see the quote?

"The" quote? It was a long running television series.

Here's a clip for you:

 

[initforme]

Both idiotic lesser thinking righties and lefties say they are for freedom.....and then comes their list of requirements. Hypocrites and lesser folk.

 

[Ringo]

"I am so angry with that infernal little Cuban republic that I would like to wipe its people off the face of the earth. All we have wanted from them is that they would behave themselves and be prosperous and happy so that we would not have to interfere." - Teddy Roosevelt (1906)

 

[rupol2000]

"I am so angry with that infernal little Cuban republic that I would like to wipe its people off the face of the earth. All we have wanted from them is that they would behave themselves and be prosperous and happy so that we would not have to interfere." - Teddy Roosevelt (1906)

Does that mean liberals are conservatives?