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Originally posted by bilmore
Okay. As long as you understand that, when I say "Kerry is an ultra-liberal", you know that I am using the word in its present twisted form, that's fine.
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In most of the world the term neo-liberal means a hard core free market capitalist. In America the word has not caught on you. The economist is definitely a neo-liberal magazine. But America we don't really have that term. Liberal in America has come to mean someone who believes in big government and higher taxes.
I would like the term liberal to be taken back by the free enterpirze small government people like it has been taken back in the rest of the world.
On Economics I am a Neo-liberal
On social issues I am a liberal.
On social engineering issues (like affirmative action) I am against social engineering so I think that should make me a liberal, but that is not true in this country and I don't know how the rest of the world looks at it.
On foreign policy I am a neo-conservative. I don't know how that falls into the liberal conservative bent as far as the trational way to look at it.
I am a liberal that does not like government intervention in most anything. However, I like the idea of using the big hand of government to spread liberal ideas and institutions around the world.
I do like government intervening to protect the environment and to provide a safety net. Those positions should be considered conservative but are considered liberal in this country.
