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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
I want to use words that accurately portray reality.
According to your (wiki's) definition, Liberals champion individual rights. I believe that is a myth. Liberals champion GROUP rights at the expense of individuals.
If they truly support individual rights, I would be identified as one.
Maybe I should simply identify myself as a Jeffersonian Constitutionalist.
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Now your getting it...
You need to change what you are calling yourself..
Not the definitions of the words..
Maybe you are learning what you really are
instead of what someone has told you what you should be.
That is the basic tenant of liberalism, individual freedoms or rights.
It is impossible to take that from the definition of the word.
that is exactly what it means.
I hold some conservative ideas also.
Like the idea of non intervention in foreign matters.
But my basic beliefs are more liberal.
Does that mean I get to change the definition of conservative
to fit what I think ??
No...
If you truly are a Jefferson Constitutionalist that means your ideas
lye in the middle of the road like Jefferson's.
Along with a lot of other people.
And even some of my beliefs.
RichC
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