Originally Posted by
The One Who
I think you mean libertarian rather than liberal. Liberals tend to be in support of more state involvement and higher taxes, libertarians are for minimising the role of the state, lowering taxes and increasing individual responsibility and rights.
A liberal is someone who wants the government out of their lives, but not completely. If you start talking about
economic liberalism, it is generally assumed that you are talking about a free market. A libertarian is someone who supports the libertarian party which tends to take extremely liberal positions when it comes to both social and economic policy. So there is nothing wrong with calling someone talking about lowering taxes a liberal. A bit pedantic I guess.
Originally Posted by
Buttons.
On an indepth political note yes it is too simplistic and I'm well aware of the differences within the parties such as the Blue dog Democrats and so on however I believe you can say that Generally x party has a recent history of being pro/anti this or that.
You can somewhat generalize on a national level I guess. I'm not sure what was going through Phelps mind when he decided to be a democrat, but I'm guessing his black and white thinking wouldn't want to in the same party as Goldwater who was a vocal advocate of gay rights.