>Being "liberal" is, to me anyway, a good quality EXCEPT when admitted in the U.S. because the right-wing there have subverted the term to mean, by their yard-stick, a small step above a marriage-minded homosexual child molester.
>It is worse than it was to call someone a communist in the MacCarthy era or to call someone a racist in the 60s - 80s.
Thanks. One more question - obviously, I have not followed U.S. politics too closely! By "right-wing", from the context I would guess you mean the current ruling party - Republicans. Is this correct?
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
