"Liberal" has its roots in "libre" or "free". Todays liberals have nothing to do with the actual meaning of the word "liberal". They are socialists and collectivists to be much more accurate.
This is an important and intellectually fascinating discussion. Unfortunately, a few people here as I'm reading this thread have chosen to cheapen it by calling people 3rd grade names like "poopyface".
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You write:
"Liberal" has its roots in "libre" or "free". Todays liberals have nothing to do with the actual meaning of the word "liberal". They are socialists and collectivists to be much more accurate.
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You are 100% right. There is a 19th Century definition of "liberal", and a modern day connotation based on what today's Liberals advocate in America:
"THE WHOLE COUNTRY STINKS. Everything we stand for; military might, American exceptionalism, Capitalism, God, guns, Hot Dogs, Budweiser, John Wayne...Let's throw it all out and replace it with a World Utopia like John Lennon described in his ballad "Imagine"...no countries, no religion, no war, no hunger, no poverty."
Sounds great in theory, but Communism doesn't work in practice. It's been tried and it's failed.