Liberal, Progressive, Statist, It Is All The Same
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I think with the swing of the pendulum over time that the words used to identify Conservatives and Liberals needs some revision. Today’s Liberals clearly have more in common with the Marxists of yesterday. This would actually make today’s Conservatives more in line with classic Liberalism, standing for liberty against oppression. Today’s Liberals like to call themselves Progressive to sound better but the core ideology is still there. The only term that truly does justice to what Liberals are advocating today is Statism. From Instapundit via Samizdata:
“Because, the word “progressive” is just as wrong as the word “liberal”. The statists who argue for the destruction of the dollar and for bank bail-outs (again) and for nationalised derangement of medical care and for green-inspired economic sabotage aren’t “liberals”. They do not believe in liberty; they believe in curtailing liberty. But neither do they believe in anything which it makes sense to anybody except them to call “progress”. Progress is the exact thing these statists are now trying and have always tried to destroy, and just lately have been doing a pretty damn good job of destroying. Progress means things getting better. These self styled “progressives” are only making things worse.
Underneath these unsatisfactory labels, which the statist (a better word for these people in my opinion) enemies of liberty and progress have chosen for themselves and have been using for decades, is an assumption, both by the statists and by those who really do believe in liberty and in progress, that the statists are the people who will inevitably continue to decide about such labels…”
I am also partial to calling them Totalitarians since they want to control every aspect of our lives.
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