About a year ago, I changed my vernacular. I rarely talk about “liberals” in a negative tone any more. I talk about “leftists”.
I don’t see them as the same. I’m a classical liberal. We now tend to call that “conservative”.
Liberal = liberty.
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Yep, they changed the meaning, as with gay.
I use proggies (for progressives) mostly now.
By whatever name, they hate many things truth, honesty, honest data, natural law, true history, natural discrimination, healthy shame, responsibility, vote outcomes against them, our Constitution, our laws and those that enforce them.