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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: HPilot who wrote (56301)10/2/2012 12:10:38 AM
From: RMF  Read Replies (2) of 71588
 
I'm not sure what the current defintion of "liberalism" is.

I think it was originally called "being a progressive" or whatever.

Everything seems to have become distorted and twisted out of shape in the last 100 years or so.

There were no real social programs of any sort when the Founding Fathers were around.
When I talk about them being "liberal", I'm talking about their attitudes towards religion and social mores.
They had seen countries where religion CONTROLLED everything and they didn't think the U.S. should be run by any ONE religion. They weren't "religious" people.

I keep hearing people like Michele Bachman saying that we want a country along the lines of what the Founding Fathers wanted and NOT a country like you'd find in Europe, but ACTUALLY our Founding Fathers were a heck of a lot more like current day Europeans than they are like what you'd find in rural America.
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