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Liberal was, in fact, the word used to describe what our founding fathers were. It was a liberal idea to put the power in the people's hands and let people live their own lives.
In the first half of the 20th century, it was used to mean the opposite ... to put the power back in the State's hands. These self-described liberals (well first it was Progressive, and when people saw through that they changed it to Liberal, and then people saw through that and they changed it back to Progressive ... and now that that brand name is tainted apparently they're considering going back to "Liberal".)
I am an originalist, which should make me a classical Liberal. But these days holding those opinions on things means I'm a Conservative.
Frankly, I don't care. Y'all call it whatever you want. Until you change what you want the "new" word to actually mean, it's still big-government socialism and social engineering. No thanks.
