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packman

(16,296 posts) Mon Aug 27, 2018, 05:31 PM Aug 2018

How the Repukes have corrupted the "L" word

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How the Repukes have corrupted the "L" word (Original Post) packman Aug 2018 OP

No they haven't. I'm proud to be a liberal and so are you. But I take your point. Squinch Aug 2018 #1

Maybe because there isn't a strong "Labor" or "Socialist" movement in the US? mwooldri Aug 2018 #2

Squinch

(50,955 posts)

1. No they haven't. I'm proud to be a liberal and so are you. But I take your point.

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Mon Aug 27, 2018, 05:46 PM

Aug 2018

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)

2. Maybe because there isn't a strong "Labor" or "Socialist" movement in the US?

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Mon Aug 27, 2018, 06:07 PM

Aug 2018

I identify myself as a Liberal Democrat, was a card-carrying member of the Liberal Democrats in England and Scotland. I'm more of a Social-Liberal... in the vein of the Social Democratic Party that was part of the Liberal-SDP Alliance before the two parties merged. Not an Orange Book Liberal (i.e. more toward Classical Liberalism). Definitely NOT a neo-liberal like Maggie Thatcher.

If there was a strong "Labor" or "Socialist" movement in the USA, I would expect that "party" to be vilified by those on the far right as the Marxists, etc.

We could start calling certain Republicans neo-Liberals and thus confuse the heck out of people...

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