<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishWiligali walikuwa kama Wig kabla ya Vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe, angalau kama ilivyoelezwa na Louis Hartz katika kitabu chake cha classic Liberal Tradition in America - Wig waliendelea kuona Proles kupitia lensi ya jamii za kale za feudal za Ulaya, wakidhani kwamba amri za chini za Amerika zilitaka kuchukua mali badala ya kuipata.  <response>: 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 Europes old feudal societies, imagining that Americas lower orders wanted to seize property rather than acquire it. 