What Is A True Liberal?

Listen to Friedrich Hayek : "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 have even assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobium. This seems particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to descrive themselves as conservatives." page 45 "The Road To Serfdom" 2007
Hayek is saying that the classical liberals allowed the leftists to take the word "liberal" and apply it to themselves. I have been angry for some time that conservative Republicans parrot the false liberals not matter how untrue the term may be that the leftists are using. For instance, conservatives use the phrase "redistribution of wealth" as if they believed what the term says. It is a false term because it implies that wealth was first distributed and then distributed again by government. Wealth, lefties and conservatives, is first earned and then the government can distribute it. If you hold a job or a business, you earn your money. It is not distributed to you. At some point or points the state, local, and federal governments seize part of your money and gift it to themselves and others. The proper term is "seizing and gifting wealth" not "redistribution of wealth."
Perhaps the reason conservatives refuse to pick up on this and complacently echo whatever term the false liberals use is found in a word Hayek uses to describe conservatism: "anti-intellectual." I say it is time we took back from the leftists our designation of "liberal" by callilng ourselves "true liberals." I would urge you to call the leftists "false liberals" as they are the antithesis of classical liberalism.
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