It’s funny how the Left has become the RW Hard Liners, and yet they claim to be liberals LOL
Today liberalism means the opposite of what it used to mean. Consider these examples:
1. Liberals used to be populists; now they’re elitists.
2. Democrats used to be the party that represented the working class, but now, judging from their presidential candidates (e.g., Gore, Kerry, Edwards, Obama) and from the fact that they control more than half of the wealthiest congressional districts (San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, etc.), it’s safe to say that they have become the party of the rich.
3. Whereas liberals used to favor human rights and the spread of democracy, now they don’t care; note their lack of enthusiasm when free elections were held in Iraq, after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, and how Jimmy Carter went from being the human rights president to the former president who never met a dictator he didn’t like.
4. The Democratic Party used to portray itself as “the party of love”; now, except on the gay-marriage issue, it’s the party of hate.
5. In the past, most conspiracy theories came from right-wing extremists; now they’re more likely to come from the left end of the political spectrum.
6. College campuses, the best place to find liberals in most communities, used to be bastions of free speech; now they censor even harmless comments, pictures, etc., in the name of “political correctness.”
7. Most telling of all, liberals used to embrace change for its own sake, but now they’re often afraid to try a new idea, calling it a “risky scheme.” (Al Gore’s words in the 2000 election)