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"Although they will be regularly deployed this campaign season, the terms "liberal" and "conservative" have largely lost analytical usefulness -- if they ever had any."
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"The people who opposed the Iraq war and still oppose it are called "liberals." Those who advocated it and still support it are called "conservatives."
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Liberal and conservative are well understood terms with commonly understood meaning. Liberals expand government and have a soft foreign policy. Pre-1972 democrats had a tough foreign policy, so there was a shift. Of course the difference between the US parties is small compared to many other countries. Roosevelt didn't save anything and didn't think big thoughts. He was political through and through and the new deal was about buying votes. Roosevelt was an admirer of Mussolini. The left has built up a mythology around Roosevelt that is not true. Read: Amity Shlaes: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
