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In reply to the discussion: Faux News poll: 11% of liberals would vote for Trump ? What the fresh hell ?? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the biggest one comes from letting people self identify as liberal or conservative when most people today really cannot identify what liberal is and is not. Newt and his sort did a really good job of defining us as something no one would want to be. Only recently are more than a handful of bravehearts starting to identify liberal because of that and because of the discrimination and hostility it often generates.
That said, there is no hard line at all between someone who has a full basket of liberal traits and some farther left who also have some liberal traits but also some not so similar at all. We know some of those voted for Sanders and then for Trump against liberals. And it's likely that some of those resentful white men who'd had too much equality and went to Trump nevertheless consider themselves liberals. And there is such a thing as bigoted liberals, just very weak and small in percentage compared to the right.
Btw, the strongest most defining difference between liberals and conservatives is in attitude toward equality. If Thomas Jefferson's mission statement for our nation speaks for you, you're gonna be liberal.
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