> The conservatives haven't spent the last 30 years turning liberalism
> into an evil to be equated with Stalinism for that not to be an
> important factor here.
>
> When I was growing up, it was not shameful to be a Liberal. It is
> today, though. That didn't happen automagically. It happened because
> people planned it and threw billions of dollars into the effort.
Socialist and communist and anarchist have all suffered the same fate as you go back beyond thirty years.
But, personally, when I consider what's happened to conservative (the word and the subject) I don't find it to be enhanced over the same period of history.
Martin