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		drexel on June 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal? Liberal basically means the opposite of what it used to mean in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism

panglott on June 3, 2016 [–]

"Liberal" means exactly what it always meant: there have always been different strains of liberalism. It's just the conservatives and libertarians who are picky about what they call themselves, defining themselves in opposition.

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