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Here’s what I wrote about liberal “tolerance” on one of my webpages in 2005:

Apparently liberalism now means the opposite of what it used to mean. Liberals used to be populists; now they’re elitists. Whereas they used to favor human rights and the spread of democracy, now they don’t care; note their lack of enthusiasm for the recent elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, and how Jimmy Carter went from being the human rights president to the former president who never met a dictator he didn’t like. 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. 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.” Most telling of all, liberals used to embrace change for its own sake, but now they’re often afraid to try any new policy, calling it a “risky scheme.”