Anchor: Liberals have been like the pre-Civil War Whigs, at least as rendered by Louis Hartz in his classic Liberal Tradition in America . The Whigs kept seeing the proles through the lens of Europe's old feudal societies, imagining that America's lower orders wanted to seize property rather than acquire it.
Entailed: The Whigs framed things like in the feudal societies. 
Contradiction: The Whigs framed things like in the industrial societies. 
Contradiction: 30s, 40s, I guess. 
Contradiction: I'm content.
Contradiction: Nobody on a swing.
Contradiction: A clown is blowing a baloon.