Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Was Thatcher a Liberal?" video.

  1. Or what we should start doing is calling it liberalism and calling out socialists who pretend they are liberal.
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  2. A conservative can be a liberal. I think that people are confused as to what these things actually mean.
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  3. When people use the terms sometimes they mean socialist rather than somebody who was in pursuit of liberty.
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  4. A liberal can still be a conservative. I think people are under the impression that a liberal is somebody who is liberal with ideas. Such as a person who is in favor of gay marriage may get labelled as a liberal when they may actually be in favor of a tyrannical government. The easiest way to understand in a loose and general way liberalism is to think of it in terms of Life, Liberty and Estate (not a perfect means).
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  5. There is no real term classical liberal. People started to use the term because socialists came along and started to call them self liberal. Today their favorite term is progressive.
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  6. Why people cannot understand that the likes of Thatcher and Reagan are liberals is all down to the fact that they do not understand what a liberal is and the main reason for that was socialists for a period of time through the media were labelling themselves liberals. Socialists today are called progressives and in 15 years time they will go back to using the term liberal.
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  7. Churchill was against the national health service as a concept as he understood that such a government finance system would fail. That was really his downfall in that he was against it but actually caught up in it politically. Churchill was also prone to making mistakes politically. He was a great leader in crisis but during peace times struggled to get his ideas across to people.
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