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Odd..where the hell did that definition come from? Did you fart it out of your ass???

Or did you get it from someone in the DNC?

So Johnny..hows that Hopey Changey thingy working out?

Hummmm?

You're using the "classic" definitions which are not so accurate in American politics. A libertarian is extremely liberal, but in America may be considered a conservative.

Well, I figured that you need to start with the basics and once one gains an understanding of that one could go on to more exotic descriptions.

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You somehow seem to be arguing that in the last 150 years "we" have somehow become more enlightened and I'm not sure that is true if applied as a broad brush statement. Listen to any fundamentalist Christian preacher, for example, "If you don't believe my way, you are damned for eternity". Of course, the Moslems seem to be saying the same thing :-)

I think that people are just as opinionated and bigoted as they ever were but the modern U.S. penchant for "politically correctness" limits what they feel they can say in public.

Hmm. Well, I think that the *most* modern penchant is for people to talk like they were raised in a pigsty and to have lost all sense of decency.

I think we behaved a lot better 50 years ago, and it's reflected in our politics.

George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama.

The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay closes

James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

John_F._Kennedy_assassination

I Want to Hold Your Hand released in the U.S., marking the beginning of full-scale Beatlemania.

Was it a good year :-?

In the terms we're discussing? Definitely.

Wallace was singing his swan song; Meredith marked the beginning of the end for Jim Crow. Kennedy was killed by a nut who was tangled up in the Cold War. Beatlemania -- what was bad about that?

In terms of politics and political discourse, it was vastly better and more civil.

My Catalina convertible was built!