When I was in college I was a left wing liberal. I have not changed my political and economic viewpoints one iota but I am no longer a liberal today. How could that be? If I am no longer a liberal it must be because I have changed into a right winger or a conservative or something, right? Not so fast. When I was a liberal:
Liberals were avid anti-war and pro-peace and they expressed those sentiments with marches and protests in the street and on college campuses across the US
Liberals were against all forms of nuclear weapons proliferation
Liberals were opposed to interfering in the affairs of sovereign nations whether they agreed with the US or not
Liberals supported working class people and the unions that made a decent middle class life possible for millions of Americans
Liberals supported progressive taxation that more evenly spread the burden of the cost of government across all income levels
Liberals supported public education
Liberals supported Social Security
Liberal opposed oligarchies and monopolies
Liberals embraced the Bill of Rights
Liberals supported free speech
Liberals opposed invasion of privacy
Liberals supported equal rights for everyone no matter in which nation they lived
Liberals supported community policing and opposed militarized police tactics
Liberals supported habeas corpus
Liberals promoted non-violence
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