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To: SilentZ who wrote (568473)	5/27/2010 6:45:04 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577228

Historically, being liberal in America has implied a personal quest for meaning, purpose, and virtue which distrusts outward conformity or displays of loyalty to the establishment. It often has meant one had to confront and resist authority and the institution of power. In a visible sense liberals are commonly identified as rebellious and subversive wrt dogma and the ruling authority. Now that the left political wing is the ruling authority some liberals are attempting to separate from extreme leftwing political dogma. Some refuse to, insisting that absolute loyalty to leftwing politics is being liberal. There is a shaking and sorting going on, none the less. Liberal is not so hard to define but when it comes to 'being liberal' it is individual and circumstantial so much so that any attempt to make a declaration about what being liberal means in the practical sense disintegrates in the declarative process. There is no sameness about liberals or even leftwingers. Are Stalin, Gandhi, Nelson Mandella, Pol Pot, and Robert Mugabe all cut from the same cloth? politicalcompass.org