Why is JFK considered a liberal martyr? especially when it comes

>>1461105
They weren't conservative at the time

Conservative must be defined relative to the then political atmosphere. When accounting for this, he was not a conservative at all.

cause he's so hot omfg

this is why liberal policies are called "progressive". the shit that was once liberal gets accomplished as "progress" and becomes the new norm. the crazy liberal ideas of the past are the conservative ideas of today.

>1776: liberal = revolutionary, conservative = loyalist
>1863: liberal = abolitionist and unionust, conservative = pro-slavery and confederate
>1915: liberal = interventionist, conservative = isolationist
>1925: liberal = workers rights, 5-day work week, no child labor, conservative = no sick days, no overtime, no standard work week, no minimum wage, child labor ok, trust profit-driven capitalism as best system
>1946: liberal = reconstructionist, conservative = colonialism/imperialist
>1963: liberal = civil rights as outline in the constitution, conservative = jim crow, segregation
>2016: liberal = gay rights, social security, public health, conservative = not

Kennedy is a fucking meme who did literal nothing other than almost drag the US into a nuclear war. On top of that he got elected partially because his dad's mob connections rigged the elections and he's literally the Kim Kardashian of politics, known more for tabloid horseshit and conspiracy theories than his actual merit.

I don't understand why would anyone, whether liberal or conservative even try to claim his as their own.

>>1461412
Ethnic nationalism was also a liberal ideology originally, then the conservatives coopted it in the 1860s.

>>1461443
this post is reactionary, emotional, and not fact-based. it has no credibility

>>1461454
>reactionary

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>>1461105
The political parties were not nearly as ideologically rigid as they are today, there was lots of regionalism and factions.

Neither party was truly liberal or conservative by modern understanding of the terms, nor was Kennedy

>>1461443
He sort of became the face of the New Left, especially when his brother tried running for President. He actually advocated for trickle-down economic policy, and even Civil Rights was a Johnson thing. But Johnson was old, talked like a backwards hick, and was associated with Vietnam. And Johnson was way more focused on income inequality. So, the movement that would become SJW liberalism allied around the image of Kennedy.