Defined here are political, economic and pop-culture terms as I understand them. To understand each other, we must use make an effort to understand the intended meaning of the words used. Would it be too much for people to use words precisely? Probably.
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Term
Intended meaning and to whom
Anarchist
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New Democrat
This terms means anything the speaker wants. Al From, founder of the Democratic Leadership Council [2000ish] is sometimes referred to as the intellectual godfather of the New Democrats. He emphasizes opportunity, responsibility and community, and serves up phrases like "modernization of liberalism," "forging a third way," and "empowering government over bureaucracy". Paul Begala, a political consultant has said that Clinton offered "modified populism."
Classical Liberal
The Founding Fathers (i.e. Jefferson, Adams, etc.) can be called this.
Note how the term "liberal" has been redefined over time caused the need to differentiate different modern uses of the word liberal.
Communist
Conservative
Simply, a person or group that wants to preserve that which is good.
Also: Slow to change; see {}
Inclusive
Left
Liberal
This word is used in so many ways as to be meaningless unless qualified. In these pages it means "for liberty", freedom of speech and the rights expressed in the US Bill of Rights.
To some, it might mean "open-minded". Be careful to qualify the word if used.
See further thoughts in {Liberal_Meaning}
Nazi - National Socialist party. See also Socialism
Neo-Conservative
Neo-Liberal
What contemporary liberal are. See progressives.
Orwellian
Describes a situation, idea, or condition that George Orwell identified as being inimical to the welfare of a free-society. See his fictional novels, particularly his political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian
Progressive
Because the term "liberal" has been given a bad connotations, some contemporary, that is neo-liberals, have started calling themselves progressive.
Paleolithic Liberals
To some, these are people who will stick with the interest groups come hell or high water, as in blind-obedience to unions.
Right
Sobriquet
Socialism
Useful Idiots.
From Wikipedia, the free on-line encyclopedia:
In political jargon, the term "useful idiot" was used during the Cold War by certain anticommunists to describe communists in western countries (particularly in the United States). The implication of the insult was that the communist in question was naïve, and that he or she was being cynically used by the Soviet Union or another Communist state, thus unwittingly being a traitor to his or her home country.
The term is sometimes claimed to have been coined by Vladimir Lenin to describe those western reporters and travelers who would endorse the Soviet Union and its policies in the West. However, no reference to a communist being called a "useful idiot" was made in the United States until 1948, and not until decades later would the attempts to attribute the phrase to Lenin be made. Lenin never wrote it in any published document, no one has claimed to have heard him say it first hand, and it contradicts the opinions expressed in Lenin's published documents in reference to the Comintern.
http://www.teriobrien.com/usefulidiots/default.asp
Values:
What are your values? What do politicians mean when they say "…. values…"? What is important to you? Premise: Values are everything. A person’s values, or lack of, will in large part determine what they do.
Another example of why we don’t trust Government:
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1871714978882830451
While we like the idea of a libertarian society, consider the view of folks such as Brian Doherty, who points out that one "has to believe" that "the instincts and abilities for liberty . . . are innate," that we possess "an ability to fend for ourselves in the Randian sense and to form spontaneous orders of fellowship and cooperation in the Hayekian sense." But this view of the relationship between the individual and society is profoundly and demonstrably false, especially when applied to the family.
Sometimes one has to make a difficult choice: Commies or Nazis?
Not either if we can...
Stalin was used to defeat Hitler.
Let's not support ANY form of totalitarian government, foreign or domestic.
Thank the Heavens that Obama/Biden have been partly taken out of power.
Neo-Brandeisianism.
Hipster Brandeis is the term coined by Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for the Neo-Brandeisian (named after former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) approach to antitrust enforcement. Hipster Neo-Brandeisianists, like Brandeis himself, favor an aggressive use of antitrust to punish businesses for the crime of growing too big by efficiently satisfying consumers.
The 2024 U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai is a Neo-Brandeisianist.