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  1. The polarity of meanings continues apace. Anther great advance courtesy the Frankfurt School.

    Ein Volk, ein Wortschatz, zwei Bedeutungen.

  2. In the 1920s and ’30s, the State-socialist Left realized that the word “socialism” scared most Americans, so they repackaged their statism under the warmer, fuzzier term “liberal.” Now it essentially means, “tax-happy, coercion-addicted State-shtupper.”

    “I remember when ‘liberal” meant being generous with your own money.”–Will Rogers.

  3. Nothing outside the state, nothing against the state, nothing without the state.

    Communism->Socialism->Social Democracy->Progressive Liberalism->Totalitarian Liberal Fascism

    It’s some kind of ourobos loop of evil.

    As for liberals, that depends on what they are liberal for or on. Liberal economic and liberal individual freedom can only go so far, if people who want to be liberals make the choice of being quiet or supportive of totalitarian regimes. There’s a certain point when the choice is already made and the phase transition shifts a person from A to B.

    Every person will be a given choice. And that choice will be tallied.

  4. I watch Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and the other progressives on MSNBC and I always think they are uneducated and naive children. No clue and living in a bubble.

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  6. The term Liberal has been as corrupted as the term Gay.

    It is a very useful tactic if you can modify the meaning of words, so that benign or positive terms are applied totally different meanings.

    I continue to wage what feels like a lonely war against the corruption of language because I think that this is a tactic to undercut traditional society.

    Thus, I refuse to use terms such as: “gay”, “pro-choice” or “liberal”. There are traditional terms that are quite serviceable, and much more descriptive; e.g., “homosexual”, “pro-abortion”, and “Statist”, “doctrinaire” or “controlling”.

  7. So he falls into the minority group, the civil liberties faction, which seems befitting of a conservative Democrat and Stanford Law professor.

    I believe it’s nevertheless useful to point out the disconnect because many in the PC group can still be reached on on individual level.

  8. At War: Two Meanings of the word “Liberal.”

    Ha! yes, that title reminds me of the time this one woman told me that she was a bleeding-heart liberal because she had, after all, a “Liberal” Arts education.

    Which we can see educated her very well!?

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