Texas A&M professor: "Repeal 2A"

[The Annoyed Man]

BTW, I think you're misusing the term "liberal." Hubert Humphrey was a liberal. The radicals calling themselves liberals today are authoritarians and better labeled as "progressives." In classical terms I am a liberal. I even used to identify as such back when the term meant something besides authoritarianism. Inside each progressive is an authoritarian screaming to get out.

Hear, hear!

A friend of mine recently drew my attention to LearnLiberty.org, a website devoted to promoting Classical Liberalism. . . . .as opposed to "progressive" (meaning "oppressive") leftism. There is an excellent video on that website explaining the 10 principles of Classical Liberalism:
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Classical Liberalism is decidedly libertarian.

Heritage.org releases an email every day. This morning's can be found here: http://blog.heritage.org/2013/11/19/get ... he-people/

The money quote from this essay is this:

In the late 19th century, the Progressive movement emerged in America. The Progressives, like their liberal heirs today, had a paradoxical relationship to democracy.

On the one hand, they championed democratic reforms, like the referendum, the ballot initiative, and the direct election of Senators (liberals today favor the popular election of the President).

On the other hand, the Progressives—again like their liberal heirs—harbored a deep-seated distrust of the unwashed masses.

“The bulk of mankind is rigidly unphilosophical, and nowadays the bulk of mankind votes,” Woodrow Wilson wrote. They “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them,” in President Obama’s infamous formulation.

But all hope is not lost, so long as we put our faith in the rule of experts—the “hundreds who are wise,” in Wilson’s words. From these enlightened few, Progressives would build the modern administrative state: government of the elites, by the bureaucrats, and for what they claim is best for the people. In short, government over the people.

To this day, liberalism continues to present itself as being all for the people—it just doesn’t trust the people to know their own good.

Modern liberalism is actually a misnomer. They are NOT liberal. They do NOT trust The People to know what is best. They DO believe that it requires an "enlightened few" who are "wise" to tell people what they should believe.