(June 24, 2013 at 2:42 pm)Raven Wrote: Classical liberalism has precious little to do with the modern concept of liberalism. FDR, Truman, LBJ, Dennis Kucinich - that's liberalism as currently understood.That was my point! You said "They were never liberal, never wanted to be."
The Libertarian movement evolved out of the classical liberal movement, after liberal started to mean something else. Libertarians were at one point the very definition of "liberal".