Reply #4: In the 1960's, because of the Vietnam war...

[ElkHunter]

...there were plenty of us who did not call ourselves "liberals." In fact, many of us believed that liberalism - especially the cold war variety - had sold out. Most activists I knew back then used various names to describe their politics: progressive, radical, socialist, or even anarchist. But few that I knew then claimed the label of liberal.

Frankly, I didn't start using the word liberal to describe myself until just a few years ago when it became a dirty word on the right.