On right wing talk radio, or reading comments online, like on Facebook, or comments to an article on an online news source, over and over and over again you will hear and read comments from those who think themselves to be "conservatives" besmirching those they believe to be liberals.
Liberals are referred to in various ways, as libs, libbies, libbers, libtards. and others I am not remembering right now.
Many a time I have thought to myself that those conservative right wing sorts, who so drastically disdain liberals, if asked to explain what a liberal is would be left dumbstruck, unable to articulate the meaning of "liberal".
You can see liberal defined above by Webster.
Possessing or manifesting a free and generous heart with a broad and enlightened mind, free from narrowness, bigotry or bondage to authority or creed, a person who advocates liberty of thought, speech and action.
Any of those positive attributes sound like any conservative republican sort you know of? No? Me either.
To me the definition of a liberal sounds like the Ideal American operating in the Ideal American Way.
Regarding being a liberal, someone had this to say, which I agree with...
"The conservatives say liberal with such disdain, like its meaning is so nasty. Call me liberal anytime."...
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