[BurkesLaw]

Deconstructing PC-speak.

[RonF]

A. Someone who owns capital, meaning almost all American workers who own capital through their pension funds.

American workers may own capital via their pension funds, but who controls that captial?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

2. Liberal:

A. Before 19601900, someone who believes in individual freedom, economic freedom, and opposes discrimination.

B. Since 19701940, someone who opposes individual freedom, opposes economic freedom, and supports discrimination.

FDR was entirely unselfconsciously using "liberal" to mean its dictionary opposite in the 1930s.

The term "liberal" retained its dictionary definition outside the US, for the simple reason that the term "socialism" (which is actually government coersion to dismiss social decisions in, for example markets) was sufficiently misleading to be a successful brand name for tyranny elsewhere. Here in the U.S. not only socialism but the revamped term liberalism have failed as brand names to make tyranny acceptable.

The definition of the term could never have been inverted without the cooperation of journalism--just another example of the negative, superficial anticonservatism inherent in that genre of nonfiction entertainment . . .

[expatpat]

The first step to deconstruction is to quit talking about liberals, and call them by their true name: socialists.

[LiteKeeper]

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[TradicalRC]

It is a sad state of affairs when a conservative is merely a liberal who is behind the times by a few decades. This ultimately means that they will never change things for the better. An authentic conservatism, IMHO, needs to be counter-revolutionary rather than counter-evolutionary. It is for this reason that I increasingly find Joseph De Maistre preferable to Edmund Burke.