What happened to the witches?

[thesummerqueen]

[kılıç_mehmet]

I should mention: witches in this country have been replaced with various things, to include communism and being liberal. The difference is that they're not allowed to hang or burn people for it. But they can do this:

In America, maybe so. In places such as Europe and nearby countries, things are quite the reverse.

[thesummerqueen]

Europeans have a slightly less neurotic (and more correct) idea of what communism, socialism, and liberal actually mean.

[Rokcet Scientist]

[thesummerqueen]

Yeah.

[kılıç_mehmet]

Europeans have a slightly less neurotic (and more correct) idea of what communism, socialism, and liberal actually mean.

I don't know how communists are relevant anymore. Their only big red hope, the Soviet Union is no more. So I don't think that communists should be taken any more seriously, and the same goes for Europe, they are mostly ignored by everyone besides....the younger people who think it's cool to be communist.
Liberals...Well, I don't know what really constitutes a liberal. In Turkey, the term liberal is used in two different contexts.

[thesummerqueen]

You're misunderstanding me. Those terms are bandied about here in American without the people who use them having more than the vaguest idea of what they actually mean. Basically they're a stand in for any phrase you might use to explain that someone is not part of the Religious Right.

[kılıç_mehmet]

You're misunderstanding me. Those terms are bandied about here in American without the people who use them having more than the vaguest idea of what they actually mean. Basically they're a stand in for any phrase you might use to explain that someone is not part of the Religious Right.

Well, I don't know. If they were conservatives instead of liberals, no one would call them liberals.
If they self-identify as liberals, it really matters little if the people who use them for those people know what they really stand for.
However, it really does matter with which context you use them. Like for example, calling someone "liberal" or "libosh" as we use the word, can have different meanings depending on who says it.
The same goes for the liberals, when they anyone else but them any names, if they bother to do so.

[downbeatplumb]

Europeans have a slightly less neurotic (and more correct) idea of what communism, socialism, and liberal actually mean.

Being anti communist/socailist seems to be a knee jerk hings for some americans , idoubt very much that they actually know what the words actually mean.

[kılıç_mehmet]

Europeans have a slightly less neurotic (and more correct) idea of what communism, socialism, and liberal actually mean.

Being anti communist/socailist seems to be a knee jerk hings for some americans , idoubt very much that they actually know what the words actually mean.

Are you implying that one cannot oppose communism once one understands "what it's all about"?

And socialism...I don't really know. It seems like everyone who claims to help the public can use that word.
Really, socialism means nothing to me. Nationalism in itself does include many allegedly "socialist" tenets and practices.