>>How so? The way I understand it, economically Liberal means:
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>>Spending more freely.
>>The government better knows how to spend your money than you do.
>>More is spent on social programs.
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>>All of these are typically synonymous with Democrat.
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>>Or am I misunderstanding it?
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>You are misunderstanding it, sort of. Liberal (in the old Hayek terminology) meant a policy of "laissez-faire" economy, in which govt kept *out*, and was synonomous with Republican ideals. Almost the opposite of today's typical meaning. Not sure how the term got so thoroughly corrupted :)

OIC. Thanks for the clarification.

Probably the same way "nice" got corrupted - through use by people <g>