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To: ClancyJ
Liberalism is all about control. Control of all the people. How they got the label "liberals" is beyond me
They didn't "get labeled"--they labeled themselves. Twice.

They labeled themselves "socialists", and outside of America that was sufficiently deceptive to sell the concept. In America, we-the-people may not have articulated it this way, but we knew that it wasn't "social" at all--it was all about government power. Not "social"ism but governmentism--tyranny.

Here "socialism" became a terrible brand. Here "liberal" was what we-the-people actually were. So, having journalism on their side, the socialists simply redefined the term "liberal" to mean the opposite of its dictionary definition. And that was an accomplished fact in the New Deal era.


18 posted on 01/07/2003 2:56:35 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Not "social"ism but governmentism

I think it is most properly denoted as a socialism via national government enforcement, or more simply "National Socialism"--this also gives it the approriate conotation.

25 posted on 01/07/2003 12:10:27 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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