Can we stop calling Lying, Delusional Leftists "liberals"? Enough already.
Liberal is so far from the original definition, it is meaningless.
About ten years ago I stopped using the term “Liberal” to define “Leftists”.
I still use the term “Liberal”, but I use it to refer to people who believe in the emotionally-based claptrap that Leftists spit out for the consumption by emotionally based and intellectually lazy proles, which the young susceptible ones lap up eagerly, especially in college.
I view them (when they are adults) as the kind of people whose kids at school bring home “Black Lives Matter” or “In This House We Believe” signs and ask if they can put them on the front lawn, and the parents (with barely a thought) say “Oh. Okay. Be back inside for supper.”
They are detached, vote Democrat because their parents did and they always have, but have emotionally based knowledge a mile wide and a nanometer deep, and no real conviction. There exists a portion of these people, however small, who can be awakened to the truth. I view them as intellectually lazy or simply “too busy” to engage.
Only a miniscule fraction of “Leftists” will ever see the truth, and if they do, it takes a life changing event of the kind that changed a full on Leftist at the top of the Leftist Food Chain like David Horowitz to a solid Conservative near the top of the Conservative Food Chain. And even for some of them, like the prisoners in the Gulag described by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn who cried tears of grief when Stalin, the man who put them there passed away, there is no hope for them.
I too make the distinction between “Liberals” and “Leftists”...I am of the opinion that nearly all Leftists pass through a “Liberal” phase (however short or mild that may be) but once they go full “Leftist” they rarely go back.
Additionally, there are people who are opposed to the use of the term “Liberal” because it used to mean “Conservative”, and after WWII the Leftists found a way to twist the meaning of the word to describe THEM and confuse people in the process, but I don’t go that far. That is territory lost that we will never get back, and I have never viewed the effort to reverse that as time well spent.
YES!
My thoughts exactly.
Shout it! I stopped calling them liberals a few years ago.
It’s LEFTISM.