Reading this Wikipedia article on Benito Juárez and the various revolutions and reforms in the nineteenth century, I can’t help but notice that the word “liberal” is spread pretty thick to mean Good Guys and “conservative” means “bad guys.”
I don’t know that an evenhanded treatment of the this period in history would merit those modern, politically charged terms. But I was on Wikipedia, you know.
Says the man who was reading the article because he was thinking about writing something about how the progressive reforms of the liberal Juárez over one hundred years ago turned Mexico into the productive world leader it is today, and drawing some parallels to what the United States might look like in a couple generations if our political leaders manage to make those same reforms in the United States today.
