laingc is making the reasonable point that in most of the world the word "liberal" means "brutally laissez faire". If you are talking about Scotland, then why n

laingc is making the reasonable point that in most of the world the word "liberal" means "brutally laissez faire". If you are talking about Scotland, then why not use the word "liberal" as it is understood in Scotland? As an example, a Scot would never say "The government increased the minimum wage today, that was very liberal of them." It's my hope that people in the USA will eventually go back to using the word "liberal" in the classic sense. But then, I keep hoping people in the USA will adopt the metric system, and I am always disappointed.