Do not mistake Leftists for Liberals. They are anything but "liberal"

I have commented before that too many conservative commentators accept the language of the Left when writing their columns, as if the Left was telling the truth.  But first and foremost, the Left lies about itself.  It describes itself as being "liberal."  But there is nothing liberal about it, and it needs to be called out at every turn.  Conservatives who accept Leftist language inadvertantly end up telling the same lies.

Eleanor Barton has an article today at The Federalist today calling out the Leftists entitled They Are Intolerant, Divisive and Anti Liberty - Call Them Leftists, Not Liberals The title says it all, but just in case you need more, there is an article below that explains in greater detail.

Democrats have moved so far to the left in recent years that they should no longer be called “liberals,” unless the true liberals among them start to stand up to the leftists who have taken over. The term is misleading, giving the impression that Democrats support individual freedoms and accept people of different viewpoints, when increasingly they do not. The word “liberal” gives yet more power to those who seek to take more of our liberties.

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As the Times notes, the left is “increasingly” intolerant. Part of why “liberal” no longer works to describe Democrats is the party has moved leftward, as many have noted, including The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan, comedian and commentator Bill Maher, and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in her State of the Union response.

Since at least 2020, Noonan wrote, Democrats “have aligned with or allowed themselves to be associated with … the identity politics-wokeness regime. (It’s amazing we still don’t have an agreed upon word or phrase that fully captures this program.)” That regime consists of transgenderism, climate alarmism, and so-called anti-racism. “The Democrats are the party of the left. Progressive pathologies morph into Democratic ideologies, tagging the party as radical. Why do the Democrats allow this to continue? Why don’t they push back, hard — as a party?”

Maher makes a similar observation: “There is that faction of the left, that we will call woke, who’s gone off the deep end,” as he described it. As Maher told CNN’s Jake Tapper last week, the woke “want to shut down debate,” and that’s how they differ from his idea of a liberal. The woke “love diversity except of ideas.” Asked to define wokeism, Maher said, “I think it’s this collection of ideas that are not building on liberalism, but very often undoing it.”

Now, you know that Bill Mahr is not a conservative, but he at least is not a Leftist either. People have different tolerances for just how much Leftism they are willing to accept. Zell Miller famously left the Democrat party years ago claiming that he had not changed, but the party had left him. More recently, Tulsi Gabbard has left the Democrat party. Again, neither of these people can be describe as conservative, but they each have finally been driven from the party because of the insanity being pushed in their name. If there are any truly liberals left, they need to be more vocal that they do not like the current thrust of their party.