...and here's the other end of the spectrum:  Those who denigrate "liberalism" for its own sake, tying it to totalitarianism and the autocratic practices of dictatorships.  They're like the people who buy hats and t-shirts advertising commercial products, but exponentially worse:  They've bought in to the propaganda that anything "liberal" is bad, which is itself a cheap political ploy, and work day and night as unpaid servants of a system in which everything is for sale---Ironic in the extreme.

Some of this is due to the capitulation of the democratic party:  Far from being progressive, most democrats vary only slightly from their republican counterparts, allowing the "right" to point to those minor differences as egregious and sinful examples of communist dictatorship.

Fact is, actual liberals invented government of the people and wrote our founding documents:  What Kathleen is saying here is that it's bad news, and that the continuing erosion of democracy is desirable