Liberalism, good for America?

If you look at the origins of modern liberalism, it doesn't sound all bad, in fact it sounds very similar to libertarians party platform.

Liberalism is a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties; specifically : such a philosophy that considers government as a crucial instrument for amelioration of social inequities (as those involving race, gender, or class). The main problem with liberalism is that they consider the government as an important part in righting the social inequities. The big government, liberal movement is generally characterized by the government taxing and spending. Liberalism has evolved far from it's classic beginnings, now liberals want the government to control every aspect of our lives because we are not capable of making the right decisions for our lives. Their reach has exceeded the righting of social inequalities and moved into straight babysitting, even though the children have all grown.

You can see the liberal hypocrisy just by looking at what liberalism "stands" for and the actions of the liberals. They "care" about civil liberties but continue to take liberties away from the people. Liberals even have trouble staying on the same side of an argument. Pelosi fears the rhetoric from "crazy" right wingers, but a couple years earlier the rhetoric was just fine. Liberals hate the filibuster and the 66 supermajority, except when they need to use it and just a couple of years ago they were all anti-war, now you don't hear a peep from them. Let's look at reconciliation, when Bush used reconciliation the libs came unglued, now it's there best friend. How about Pelosi and Reid talking about draining the swamp and being the most fiscally sound Congress, what a joke. Rangel dodging taxes, Kerry dodging taxes, corporate vacations, $100,000 liquor bills for the Speakers tax payer funded jets and all this while they tell us that it's American to pay our taxes, and un-American to protest.

All of this and we still have people that call themselves liberals, it's amazing. Maybe someone can explain it to me, it just doesn't make sense.