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3. What's with the separation of "liberals" from the left?
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 12:30 PM
Aug 2017

That use of the word "liberal", as if it's a bad thing, is how the alt-right denigrate it.

Do not fall victim to that.

Liberals may not be as far left as you but are part of the big-tent Democratic Party and have been fighting for programs that benefit disadvantaged people long, long, long before the word alt-left ever was coined.

And as far as my leftist credentials go, I go as far back as when the term "fighting the establishment" was something we used as campus radicals against our college administration.

I and many of my colleagues of the time long ago outgrew the altruistic, lack-of-life-experience simplicity of that term, unlike some others, prominent others I might add, who still use that term to foster divisiveness within their own party.

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