Trump explains why he cast a mail ballot in Florida's election: 'Because I'm president'

Comrade, you must be misremembering. It was never “Four legs good, two legs bad.” It’s “Four legs good, two legs *better*.”

Welcome to the term "neoliberalism." Before 1930s, Liberalism was considered a left-wing ideal, as it directly went against the interests of literal landed nobility and the binding of land to bloodline titles. This meant it included a large number of different political affiliations, since "landed nobles are bad for economic growth" was pretty much proven by economic research even back then. But after the 1930s, liberalism as a whole was dead in the water. The populace very much liked the welfare brought by the New Deal, and the horrors of WW2 meant NOBODY liked elitism anymore. A mass wave of left-leaning politicians swept the world over, and the public was solidly pro-reform. So the only way for traditional power bases to survive, was to co-op leftist thought and movement. Results varied across the world, but here in the united states we got "neoliberalism" which was allegedly pro-equality but still had the goal of spreading fiscal austerity. It is one of the big reasons why boomers don't believe in "handouts" or high taxes: fiscal austerity itself was propagandized to be "the politics of the aged and informed." Of course nowadays pretty much all economic research points to fiscal austerity, and all its forms, to be economically inferior. High welfare and public spending paid with high taxes, are just GOOD THINGS that keep people housed, fed, clothed, and educated. It brings ACTUAL equality*.* Which, incidentally, is why *modern liberalism* supports these measures, while neoliberalism does not. And is the central conflict among democrats, who think neoliberalism and modern liberalism are in the same political sphere.