To: Physicist
To: f.Christian
The fact that the nomenclature of the political spectrum is
is reversed in the USA indicates the radical nature of our republic. The radical idea of the 18th century was reducing the power of central authority in favor of individual liberties. American liberals of today seem more interested
in returning those hard won individual freedoms to the central government. (I deliberatly use the term central rather than federal because I am a Southerner who recoqnizes the difference.)
American conservatives today are Classical Liberals.
7 posted on 10/25/2002 9:34 PM PDT by limitedgov
To: f.Christian
I agree. In fact, I most commonly describe myself as a "classical liberal" when people ask my political orientation.
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