[Qwinn]

This accusatory label is reminiscent of the habit of some political speakers 50 years ago who declared that their opponents were "Communists" or "Communist sympathizers." Such a similarity, while not precise, is at least interesting, since the increasingly rapid fall of the popularity of "liberal" began just about 50 years ago.

Idiot. That "coincidence" occurs precisely because the similarity in question is absolutely precise, and the growing hostility toward liberalism has grown in direct proportion to the public's realization of that fact.

Qwinn

[NHResident]

True, classical liberalism is far closer to what is today labeled conservatism than the fascist, socialism (now THERE"S an interesting association of words) that is fashionably identified as 'liberalism' today. The problem is NOT with the quite proper condemnation of what is CALLED 'liberalism' today by the President and other responsible individuals but the PERVERSION of liberal concepts into a falsifying, bigoted, intolerant, irrational and unthinking ideology of repression and PC intolerance.