RandyG wrote:
The word liberal comes from a Latin root meaning 'freedom.' Since I believe that all interactions among adults should be voluntary, I am certainly a liberal -- as the American founders were liberals, and more recently the likes of Mises, Hayek, Rand.
The current gang infesting Washington, and their supporters, are absolutely not liberals, but statists, convinced that some greater good can come from driving men at gunpoint. In fact this is the most consistently illiberal administration the US has ever seen. Unfortunately most of the other party are statists as well, just in a slightly different way ...
In other words, it's self-righteous authoritarianism labeled as liberalism.
That's pretty much the way I see it, too.
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08 Aug 2013, 8:56 pm
