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liberal
adjective
1 open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values : they have more liberal views toward marriage and divorce than some people ['some people?'].
• favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms: liberal citizenship laws.
• (in a political context) favoring maximum individual liberty [as long as your views conform] in political and social reform : a liberal democratic state.

noun
a person of liberal views. [Look, they use the actual word in the definition!]
• ( Liberal) a supporter or member of a Liberal Party [yes].

Are the contradictions evident? When did the Democratic Party officially hijack the word “liberal?” How can they claim to be liberal by this definition? Individual rights and freedoms? Which ones? The rights of sex offenders? It appears that the author(s) of these dictionary entries was (were) quite liberal in their decision processes.

This is one of the reasons that politics is so frustrating. In the current political world, the word liberal means “highly [or aggressively] intolerant of anyone who agrees with any ‘conservative’ opinion.”

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by ike