"Labels are useless in understanding ideas, policies, or people..."
This is not by accident. Leftists have used their control of the mass media to reverse the meanings of terms like liberal, progressive, and democracy, to name but a few. Until 1946, 'liberal' meant what 'classical liberal' or 'neoliberal' does today. FDR reversed the meaning to make leftists 'liberals' in a speech in 1946 and the media went along with the switch. Wilson had done much the same trick with 'progressive.'
Leftists were 'reds' for 150 years. In 1980, leftist TV networks switched the colors so that Dems wouldn't look like reds on color TV election maps.
These aren't accidents.
"However, the shifting sands of American politics and society do require some reference points..."
Leftists are the people who want government to be bigger and more powerful, and then use it to control the rest us. And the rest of us want the freedom to live and let live.
"Labels are useless in understanding ideas, policies, or people..."
This is not by accident. Leftists have used their control of the mass media to reverse the meanings of terms like liberal, progressive, and democracy, to name but a few. Until 1946, 'liberal' meant what 'classical liberal' or 'neoliberal' does today. FDR reversed the meaning to make leftists 'liberals' in a speech in 1946 and the media went along with the switch. Wilson had done much the same trick with 'progressive.'
Leftists were 'reds' for 150 years. In 1980, leftist TV networks switched the colors so that Dems wouldn't look like reds on color TV election maps.
These aren't accidents.
"However, the shifting sands of American politics and society do require some reference points..."
Leftists are the people who want government to be bigger and more powerful, and then use it to control the rest us. And the rest of us want the freedom to live and let live.