"conservative claims that the liberal tradition is essentially amoral" is a stain on the intellectual status of those conservatives who hold that belief. It was not through searching for the true meaning of liberalism that lead them to that conclusion. It came about from a lack of searching and ignorant acceptance of: sometimes deliberate propaganda, and sometimes the ignorance of others (a tradition of ignorance).
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I agree with you. Its become a dirty word with conservatives and its too bad. I was once one of them until I educated myself with the help of bloggers and sites like mises.org. I have since accepted the term liberal or to be more specific with the ignorant, "classical liberal". It requires some work to help others understand but I am working it one person at a time.
As Hayek said "I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in this country, helped by muddleheadedness of many who really believe in liberty, that 'liberal' has come to mean the advocacy of almost every kind of government control.
I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives."---F.A. Hayek, in the Forward to "The Road to Serfdom" (1944)
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