It seems (from AB) that in the U.S. the terms "left" and "liberal" are considered to be synonymous. Is this true of U.S. thought more widely? How did this idea come about?
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The liberal ideology came about during the FDR era. In fact Ronald Reagan considered himself a liberal, but it was during the 1950's when the communist party hijacked the liberal ideology and the democrat party for that matter. You see the communists could not call themselves communists because we were fighting a cold war with the communists, so they did the next best thing and joined the democrats. I'm sure that there are a lot of other factors involved, but that's how the American liberal became so far to the left, at least from all that I've read.
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Quote: The terms Left and Right have been used to refer to political affiliation since the early part of the French Revolutionary era. They originally referred to the seating arrangements in the various legislative bodies of France, specifically in the French Legislative Assembly of 1791, when the king was still the formal head of state, and the moderate royalist Feuillants sat on the right side of the chamber, while the radical Montagnards sat on the left.[9] This traditional seating arrangement continues to be observed by the Senate and National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic. End Quote. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-right_politics Obviously the terms started LONG before the 1950's.
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