Those Who Hate "Liberals" Really Hate a Free America

[DaveSZ]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0601-01.htm


Published on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 by the Free Press (Columbus, Ohio)
Those Who Hate "Liberals" Really Hate a Free America
by Harvey Wasserman

The rightist "conservative" media moguls who hate "liberals" actually hate a free America.

Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, Hannity and O'Reilly, the Weekly Standard and Wall Street Journal---they all rant at some unspecified species allegedly left of center.

But right from its birth, America has been the very definition of a liberal nation.

Today's Foxist ditto-heads would have hated all America's founders: Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Madison,


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[catzies]

1. That was so good,

If I smoked, I'd have a cigarette. :evilgrin:

[TXlib]

2. I always thought the founders would be considered more libertarian today

Our nation's founders were liberals in the classical sense -- which lives on today, more or less, as libertarianism.

Although this is nitpicky, as I'm pretty sure the RW talking heads would take extreme issue with the libertarians for the social side of their libertarianism -- not caring about gay marriage, drugs, or the willy-nilly imposition of one's morals on others.

[DBoon]

3. Libertarians and classic Liberals believed in a limited military

The founders of this country would be appalled at our colonial empire in the Middle East.

[leftyandproud]

4. they would be

I don't think Jefferson wanted a 2.5 trillion dollar federal government.