Where have all the liberals gone?

[Red Celt]

I know that I'm not the only liberal here, and I was wondering just how much of a minority I'm in. So. Do you class yourself as a liberal?

If the definition is too loose, allow me to give a decent enough description based on liberalism's poster boy, John Stuart Mill. This is a summary of his position as declared in his work On Liberty.

Your freedoms allow you to do anything up until the point where your actions infringe upon the freedoms of other people. Put simply, consenting adults can do what the hell they like without the problem of other people telling them what they can (or cannot) do.

e.g. If you're against abortions, don't have one. You have no right to tell other people that they can't have one. They're not infringing your freedoms, so don't attempt to infringe theirs.

If you're a liberal, you will also be an egalitarian. No gender, no race, no sexual preference... nothing that you were born with allows you a greater right than any other person.

Liberals oppose inequality. Freedom for all.

And yet the word is used in a defamatory way. "Yeah, those scummy liberals... looking out for the rights of people who don't look exactly like them!".

And, based on some of the threads I've been reading, there sure are a shitload of non-liberals on AF.