How many people here were once liberals? ✋

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[–]VulptexVoluntaryist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The fringe fire and brimstone preachers yes, but they were also historically Democrats.

[–]AntarchomachusAnarchist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes...but they were still (social)conservatives. Democrats and Republicans just swapped liberal and conservative ideologies.

But yeah, the changing, ill defined nature of these words is obviously a problem

[–]VulptexVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why does it matter? And most of the same people who were social conservatives are now progressives.

[–]AntarchomachusAnarchist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why does it matter?

Because my original point had to do with conservatives and liberals, not democrats per se

And most of the same people who were social conservatives are now progressives.

I agree with you that these words are used in so many different ways that they are now essentially meaningless