Preon1: a person who is liberal: as a : onw who is open minded or not strict in the observance of orthodox, traditional, or established forms or ways.
I dare say that miko qualifies. What's your definition of liberal?
That depends what you consider "orthodox, traditional, or established forms or ways". I am much closer to the conservatives - paleoconservatives, as they are called. In fact I am beyong just a modern "conservative" - I am for going all the way back to Adam Smith, Hume, etc. liberal individualistic philosophy - liberal then, now relabeled libertarian, with the original term stolen - that was displaced in public opinion by the Ecole Polytechnique school's historicism and positivism and social engineering collectivist statist views actually based on of A. Comte (attributed to Sent-Simon) and Hegel (that actually originated with Condorcet) but better known in Marxism and modern liberalism/socialism/welfare state ideologies.
So if I am open minded as to going back to traditional 19th century liberal values - yes, I qualify.
But the root and original meaning actually derives from liberty - individual liberty as opposed to state control.
miko
