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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re playing with labels. Someone who believes in free speech, freedom of religion, a free market, and a social contract called the Constitution was, in the late 19th century, a liberal. Today he’s a conservative. It’s a really silly semantic game.


4 posted on 03/06/2014 7:53:44 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
I agree. They are selling the idea that everyone wants the government to step in and enforce "good" things.

Not me. I want government to back off and (at most) stop people from interfering in my life. Don't do me any favors: just leave me alone. I don't care what vocabulary they want to dress that up in, it's not a Liberal view.

11 posted on 03/06/2014 7:58:28 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Billthedrill

I am and will always be a ‘Classic Liberal’ which is by today’s standards a Conservative. But make no mistake, I find nothing redeeming in central planned economics (big government) or the fascism we’re living with today.


16 posted on 03/06/2014 7:59:38 PM PST by griswold3 (Post-Christian America is living on borrowed moral heritage)
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To: Billthedrill

True. Or people who question authority were considered liberal. Now liberals are conformists and if someone breaks from the ranks or does not hold the same thought, those people are outcasts.


19 posted on 03/06/2014 8:01:05 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: Billthedrill

Probably better to use that quiz that results in someone’s political views mapping them to some area of a quadrant.


38 posted on 03/06/2014 8:50:23 PM PST by thecodont
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To: Billthedrill

That’s why I prefer the term “Constitutionalist”. That simplifies the question.


61 posted on 03/07/2014 5:00:56 AM PST by Pecos (The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
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