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[[Image:Liberal Brain.jpg|thumb|350px|top|<center>A satirical conception of the liberal brain.</center>]]

[[Image:Liberal Brain.jpg|thumb|350px|top|<center>A satirical conception of the liberal brain.</center>]]

In the U.S. the word ''liberal'' is usually used to describe the platform espoused by the [[Democratic Party]], that is, support of [[social welfare]] systems, redistribution of wealth, and government regulation of the economy - combined with a certain brand of individual [[libertarianism]], emphasizing [[communism|social equality]], and (to a certain extent, these days increasingly radical) rejection of traditional [[Judaism|Judeo]]-[[Christianity|Christian]] standards of [[morality]] as a proper justification for [[law]].

In the U.S. the word ''liberal'' is usually used to describe the platform espoused by the [[Democratic Party]], that is, support of [[social welfare]] systems, redistribution of wealth, and government regulation of the economy.

The [[economic]] aspects of this ideology are to a large extent a product of the [[New Deal]] policies ofthe [[Great Depression]] era, as well as [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s "[[Great Society]]."  

The [[economic]] aspects of this ideology are to a large extent a product of the [[New Deal]] policies ofthe [[Great Depression]] era, as well as [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]'s "[[Great Society]]."