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To: docbnj
Time to drop the misnomer "conservative" and get back to referring to ourselves as classic liberals in the tradition of Locke & von Mises.

How New Deal statists-turned-totalitarian fascists ended up with the title "liberal" is a mystery to me. It sure as hell ceased being accurate, if it ever was.

19 posted on 06/11/2009 3:35:53 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Yes, Hayek and Albert Jay Nock always called themselves liberal, too. The New Dealers co-opted the term. By the time a true liberal like Robert Taft came to prominence, was branded as a “conservative”, since he opposed the New Deal conception of the state.


23 posted on 06/11/2009 3:57:40 PM PDT by oblomov (Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - Mencken)
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