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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (47462)1/31/2008 1:01:35 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 542002
 
I didn't spin it at all. I pointed out the problems with using it in this context.

Liberal has many meanings not all of them political, and importantly not all of them the same (some can even be contradictory).

You didn't give me one definition. You gave me 15. Which one do you want to apply. I'll use any of them you want, but don't equivocate about it. If you use one that means something other than the political "progressive" or "liberal-democrat" meaning, than maybe Lincoln was a liberal by that definition, but that doesn't mean he was "liberal" in the way the term is used in American politics today.

If you like definitions like "tolerant", and "generous" than fine but quite a lot of conservative Republicans are tolerant and generous. If you mean "favoring or permitting freedom of action" well the Democrats aren't any further in that direction than the Republicans, and supporting lower taxes, which you condemn as elitist, is something that favors freedom of action.
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