I see what you mean. People don’t care much about etymology when it comes to ideological labels. Once a word becomes a standard designation for a party, ideology, or movement, few people ever stop to think where that name came from or what meanings it has otherwise. (Though of course there are bitter disputes if multiple groups lay claim to the same label as their primary identification.)
Also, ideological labels that are great applause lights for (practically) everyone lose this characterisic when they’re used as designatons for concrete political/ideological groups. (A mention of the Democratic Party, for example, is hardly an applause light for anyone except its most passionate partisans, even though the general meaning of this adjective is possibly the greatest universal applause ligth of all nowadays.)
I see what you mean. People don’t care much about etymology when it comes to ideological labels. Once a word becomes a standard designation for a party, ideology, or movement, few people ever stop to think where that name came from or what meanings it has otherwise. (Though of course there are bitter disputes if multiple groups lay claim to the same label as their primary identification.)
Also, ideological labels that are great applause lights for (practically) everyone lose this characterisic when they’re used as designatons for concrete political/ideological groups. (A mention of the Democratic Party, for example, is hardly an applause light for anyone except its most passionate partisans, even though the general meaning of this adjective is possibly the greatest universal applause ligth of all nowadays.)