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a bad connotation. The very uncreative never-met-a-poverty-program-I-didn't-wanted-to-fund liberals of the 60's and 70's certainly helped retire the word too. Fact is, liberals stopped calling themselves liberals because the GOP was highly successful in dirtying up the word in the minds of more moderate, independent voters.
Why is it that you and the right-wing nuts in the other party always think it's about you...you,you, you. The people who actually decided elections in this country in the overwhelmingly majority of states are centrists, moderates.
It often seems that the only reason either political party exists is so both extremist sides can keep fighting with each other. Maybe it's actually time for a new major party in the United States. One that's not being held hostage by extreme radicals from either side of the ideological divide.
