For current Westerwelle:
Even in Jane Austen (late 18th century) was "liberal" in its primary meaning synonymous with "generous", "generous"; "A liberal man" was insonderheit a Wealthy, who had a thing for the lower orders, and personally took care in his home environment and nature for their welfare.
Nietzsche then said, liberal, which is a synonym for mediocre (as I recall, he referred to the British).
In the late twentieth century, then was called liberal, that you can not spank gays and imprison.
Now in the twenty it means that you voluntarily freezes for banks and starved, so that the entire liberal system does not in itself would collapse.
In the twenty-second, the adjective should be for those who prefer not equal more like incarnate on earth here below not possibly even having to endure the company of other liberal until exitus.
