Even liberals who've accomplished a lot in their lives and have high IQs often say things on a regular basis that are stunningly, profoundly vacuous, and at odds with the way the world works. Liberalism has become so bereft of common sense and instinctually suicidal that America can only survive over the long haul by thwarting the liberal agenda. In fact, liberalism has become such a toxic and poisonous philosophy that most liberals wouldn't behave differently if their goal were to deliberately destroy the country. My
I like Tom's way of saying it. Demprogcrats? Wait. Maybe it was Libprogcrats. Whatever. I think libprogcrat works pretty well. Liberalism per se is good. It's liberty mindedness. Some might rightly say Classically Liberal. Limited government (yeah, that wasn't a conservative idea. They liked to use government to close stores on Sunday and wage war on drugs as naively as the progressives thought they could wage war on poverty.) Our founders were the classical kind of liberal. In contrast, progressives are retarded. Especially the activists.
What's astonishing to me is how positions have flipped with the election of Trump. What was anathema to Libprogcrats in the past is now awesome, and what was awesome when Obama did it is now anathema when Trump does it. Kinda true for the ardant Trumpers too, but we're talking about Librhulls.
