Lib or Con? Why the hatred?

Question

I have noticed on Answers that many of the questions and answers are slanted towards the label "liberal" or "conservative". When our country was founded on individual freedom and expression, why the divide now. The differant political parties have divided this country to a point that you either have to be one or the other. I feel when we all look at an issue and discuss it without the words: liberal, conservative, democrat, or republican showing up in the answer or question, we get more information. Will we ever be just American again?

Derek and redneck.. you are doing what the question stated. Try to answer without the labels..... not easy is it?

Answer 1

Good Question, which took me several minutes of valuable on-line time here at the Library to even consider a possible cause.

Perhaps this overdramatized dualistic Labeling is PROOF of the lazy "lowest common denominator" of COMMON humans? This form of Aristotelian "thinking" harks back to the Ancient Greeks, so is not a new phenomenon, at all. Notice all the bloody WARS throughout recorded human history?

Alfred Korzybsky, author of "SCIENCE & SANITY" and other General Semantics books, identifies this rigid, two-valued form of "Logic" as THE key factor in mental break-downs in thought; i.e. ( human misuse of Language leading TO actual INsanity!). He made his own observations in psychiatric wards personally supervised in his work.

Doctor Korzybsky (sp?) recommends re-training in General Semantics & MULTI-VALUED Logical analysis & description as a key help, if not a REMEDY for such insanities! (Of course, those NOT caused primarily by actual, Neurological Disease.)

Binary or Boolean "Logic" is usefull in design of NON-organic systems such as computer hardware, but dangerous if used to address REAL Life problems, or in Science and the Arts. The simplest set of "Logical" values would be Trinary; i.e 3-valued!
"Yes", "No", and "Maybe/Don'tknow4sure"!

The simplistic use of "LIBERAL" versus "CONSERVATIVE" stereotyping you HEAR on the (AM) Talk Shows probably indicates frightened but LAZY Thinking of the commoner who calls-into these programs. LIB/CON dualisms could also be a deliberate & manipulated RHETORICAL ploy of political pseudo-thinkers who wish to push their OWN (often stupid!) AGENDA!

Ooops! Sorry. Got carried away there. Go READ Korzybsky!

Answer 2

I have no problems with the words themselves, just with how important they seem to be to some people.
"Liberal," "conservative", "democrat," or "republican" are, or should be, just words people use to try to summarize their general political feelings. I cound spend a long time telling you my position on many topics, or I can say "I am a bit of a Libertarian." The problem is when people assign a particular label to themselves, then accept all the beliefs commonly ascribed to that label without thinking. It gets even worse when they assume all those not carrying the same label to be crooks or idiots.

I have some questions still open on the subject of divisive, mean-spirited questions (Qs like "Why can't NEOCON men satisfy their women?) and answers (like "Because Bush has his head up Jesus' ***".)

Answer 3

Usually because conservatives won't 'share' time, that is, when they say something, they don't want any "other truth" to be available to the public but their own. They don't want to share the podium with anyone with a different opinion where a liberal will. He'll say, let the people make up their own mind, that's their right. And that's a liberals achille's heel. While he's fighting for equality, the conservatives are running the hell over him and all he can do is complain instead of get up and kick the conservatives ***.

Answer 4

I attribute a lot of the anger to the 2000 elections. The outcome was like flipping a coin & it landing on it's edge & wabbling quite a while before falling to one side.

The positive effect - Everyone cares more about elections. People feel like their votes counts, now.

The negative effect - A lot of anger. It's difficult enough as it is to accept defeat, but when it happens in such a "fuzzy" way, some people just can't accept it.

Another factor - The fact that some "Democrats" lost their votes to a third party causes many people to steer away thinking outside the "Republican" or Democrat" box.

Answer 5

It's because of the hate talk from radio and TV talk host ., If you just listen to them , they never have any thing good to say about anyone that disagrees with them . They keep the hate going and going

Answer 6

Stupid Liberal's have nothing interesting to say!!

Answer 7

Nope I don't think so

Answer 8

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