[RobbyS]

Liberal used to describe people who stood for something, people like Hubert Humphrey. Since 1968, it describes those who give individualism a bad connotation.

[Muleteam1]

There's a bit too much vindictiveness and outright hatred in liberals for me anymore. The liberals I have personally known seem to be seeking a utopia on earth and cannot fathom that others may not agree with them. Not that we don't see some of that inability to cooperate here on FR from rigid conservatives. The American liberal movement has drifted a bit too close to socialism and communism for my tastes. They hate religion, they want to redistribute wealth, they despise individualism and entrepreneurship and they seem to want government to become a huge, but dangerous, elite ruling class.