Liberals, what percent of the U.S. population define thenselves as "Liberal"?

Question

I suspect a very small number of U.S. citizens consider themselves liberals but there are so many questions about liberals. I think these questions are used to enrage. The liberal questions seem to serve no useful purpose. So who is a liberal? Is a liberal anyone who voted for Bill Clinton? If it is, there are mucho liberals.

To Misquite Gal, please name names. Who are these liberals?

Answer 1

If you can define yourself as either Liberal or Conservative then you are a sheep in someone's game. What this country needs is free independent thinkers, who want to better the country no matter what party they are from. Furthermore attacking someone just because they are more liberal or conservative then you is igorant. You never know what someone might teach you if you just open your ears.

Answer 2

I think it is hard to define a liberal right now, because I don't think its so cut and dry anymore, republicans have made alot of mistakes this last time around which may sway people into democratic thinking, I don't think there is one answer, people are changing there vote all the time, I don't think just because someone voted for Bill Clinton makes them a liberal maybe, they didn't like the other cantidate, I believe when Clinton was in office that if people were more focused on the issues instead of his sex life, alquida may not of become so strong, and gotten away with there plans.

Answer 3

A liberal is someone who believes that government through social programs can fix what is wrong in peoples lives. They believe anyone making $100,000 a year is rich and should fund these programs through a progressive tax rate. Most liberals are pacifist, and if would not confront Hitler if today was 1942 because Germany never attacked us, Japan did. Liberals believe that a persons values should not be rammed down their throats, but believe that children in elementary school should be taught to respect "alternative lifestyles". If I took a guess, I'd say about 15% of the country.

Answer 4

carry on now. Are you asserting 50% of individuals are liberals? i think of no longer. And your good judgment can truthfully placed any incorrect way utilizing your premise. If conservatives hate 50% of u.s. than what approximately the different a million/2? Are liberals traitors because of the fact they hate the 50% of individuals that detest liberals? Are they the 5th column additionally? Is it patriotic to cut back the investment of troops in harms way in an attempt to earnings politically whilst liberals have been additionally in touch in sending them there interior the 1st place? Is it patriotic, to tell the troops that we help them yet won't supply them what they might desire to prevail. who're the traitors now?

Answer 5

The answer is far too many!!

How long will this sickness be allowed to continue? These liberals say the most vicious, slanderous things - and they're still all over our TV, radios, and newspapers. It's a disgrace.

Liberals: we're not talking about some obscure professors here. We're talking about major media figures who dominate the airwaves. Their opinions, and their bile, are pretty much all you're gonna hear these days.

I mean, remember when one of them posed with a brick and said it should be used to "smash conservatives in the face?" Pretty rough stuff - yet we still saw him on the airwaves and in print all the time after that, as if nothing had happened.

And remember when those two leading liberal spokesmen applauded Al Qaeda's "brilliant victory" against the "imperialist US," and said we "had it coming" for our "capitalism, greed, and lack of collectivism"?

You still see that pair all the time. In fact, they're treated as if they were moral leaders of some sort.

Do you recall when that liberal pundit snarlingly suggested new targets for Al-Zarqawi to bomb, like a superchurch, a megamall, Halliburton headquarters - or the whole state of Texas? "Burn 'em," he said. "They deserve it."

He's got his own show now.

Remember that one who said that rape was "a hoot," and that "all we need is a few more John Hinkleys to straighten this country out"?

You can hear him on the radio every day.

And then, you know that time some Hollywood lefty said that Charlie Manson "had the right idea, he just should've gone to Crawford instead of hanging around my town?"

You can see his books displayed in every Barnes & Noble and Borders in America.

Another guy said the U.S. Constitution's "nothing but a rag," that the Irish and Italians are "dirty" and "greasy," and that Jews were "dirtbags" who should "get the hell out of our country" or be forcibly converted to Islam - that is, after we kill their rabbis.

CNN gave him his own show.

And that's not all.

They laughed - laughed! - at the widowed spouses of our heroic soldiers, when some of these bereaved souls defended our Iraq policy. They sneeringly called them "grief junkies" who "laughed when their husbands died" because they "knew they'd have a government paycheck for life." They said that "America is an atheist country by law," and that "if you don't like it you Christies can all go back to Nazareth or wherever it is your cult comes from."

Still, other liberals said nothing and the media continued to feature them.

These creeps said that Bush and Cheney should be assassinated, and that we should be converted en masse to Communism - after being "bombed into the stone age" so we can't continue our "reign of evil." They applauded when Dutch rightists trampled a Torah in the dirt, and laughed when a statue of Christ and the Virgin Mary was shattered by sledgehammers. "Remember the Inquisition and the Crusades?" they said. "It's payback time."

Yet there they are on your TV every night, being interviewed as if they were legitimate political commentators. They join in panel discussions as if they brought a reasonable perspective to the dialog. Other liberals don't condemn them. Democratic politicians appear on their radio shows. And the corporate media gives them exposure night after night after night.

Why is this allowed to go on? What kind of a sick country are we living in? At long last, have we no decency...thanks to Liberals.

Answer 6

Most Americans think of them self as not right or left but the radical middle the way it should be. The neo-Conservatives have done a good job at separating us.

Answer 7

were all liberal when it comes to recieving from the gov't...just like were all conservative when it comes to giving to the gov't...

the key is thinking logically and determining what will be best for our country, not just what is best for ourselves...