I remember being liberal in the mid 2000s and trying to explain to people how liberal wasn't the same as "regressive leftist". I swear I coined that term too but apparently a few other people had started using it at the time. It was just so natural. Here were these self-described "liberals" that weren't actually liberal at all and whose values were "backwards" from a "true" liberal's perspective.
The conservatives at the time didn't help things because conservatives started calling all "left-wing" people "liberals", even though ironically, most conservatives are actually classical liberals.
Today, I'm not really any label and am sort of Christian Theocratic, Capitalistic and Nationalistic whatever that is. Think conservative 150 years ago.
I remember being liberal in the mid 2000s and trying to explain to people how liberal wasn't the same as "regressive leftist". I swear I coined that term too but apparently a few other people had started using it at the time. It was just so natural. Here were these self-described "liberals" that weren't actually liberal at all and whose values were "backwards" from a "true" liberal's perspective.
The conservatives at the time didn't help things because conservatives started calling all "left-wing" people "liberals", even though ironically, most conservatives are actually classical liberals.
Today, I'm not really any label and am sort of Christian Theocratic, Capitalistic and Nationalistic whatever that is. Think conservative 150 years ago.