Are you a liberal or a Conservative and witch is better for our Nation?

Answer 1

Capital L Liberal, in the classic sense. That tends to spell out as "conservative" in the course of today's political discourse. I believe that our founding fathers struck gold with their political philosophy - that the source of government is the people and that certain truths are manifest in God's creation - that God created us all with inalienable rights. Including the right to life, liberty and happiness.

Today's "liberals" pretty much follow the philosophy of the social darwinists - that some people are just better than others because they have the right education, breeding and pedigree, but they mix in the high-minded ideals of egalitarianism that was the energy behind Johnson's Great Society programs of the 1960s. 40 years later, with society churning out children born to unmarried parents in enormous numbers, and welfare bound classes for generations living in permanent poverty, the do-goodism of that brand of "liberalism" has run its course. Left with little success to support the theory, very few people across the country are true believers in that orthodoxy. It is sort of a religion. Just try disagreeing with any of the sacrements of liberalism and you will be chastized as soundly as any nun ever chastised a rowdy boy in parochial school. My best friends are liberals. They wrongly assume that my education, commitment to morality and social success are the product of being enlightened like they.

Which is better? Not a contest. We were in a state of panic and, perhaps, nearing defeat to the USSR in 1980 when the US decided that a conservative like Ronald Reagan belonged in the White House. Liberals loved to hate him. But the country has never been the same. We regained our confidence, won the cold war and the economy boomed. Our world economy today is in large part due to the success of the conservative movement that empowered the little guy, the small business man and the entreprenuer to raise capital and try out a business plan. Even Clinton borrowed heavily from Reagan's speeches.

Clinton's presidency was doomed in the first two years when he tried to govern on liberal planks in his party platform. The GOP took the house and senate in 1994 because of his miscalculation. He regained his momentum when he moved his politics to the center - closer to where Reagan had been.

The people who call themselves liberals today presume to occupy the moral highground on all issues and ridicule their adversaries on moral grounds ... as though their doctrinal beliefs make them better qualified to pass moral judgments. From the environment to the economy to foreign policy to abortion, liberals think they own the morally correct positions. Few have ever had to run a business from scratch, meet a payroll or anytihng else that most Americans do every day. I don't mind an honest discussion with anyone who disagrees with me. I am certain that some of my beliefs are less than perfect and, hopefully, I will continue to discover the truth of life as my life goes on. Liberals I've met, on the other hand, seem incapable of admitting that they are wrong. They remind me of my fundamentalist Christian friends in so many ways.

Answer 2

Conservative: Liberals need a reality check

Answer 3

I'm liberal, and I don't really know what is best for our nation. All I can say is that the conservatives need to leave gay marriage alone.

Answer 4

I am a conservative. I think the nation needs botb liberals and conservatives, with all of us working together instead of fighting all the time.

Answer 5

I don't like either of those terms. They are both so definite and harsh. I like to call myself a moderate because I agree with issues from both of these groups. Some may call that riding the fence, but I see it as being more open minded to other ideas and not being so rigid that I can't see another's opinion for what it is. People use these labels to write off an entire group of people just because they lump them together with a few of the loud leaders who have more camera time than others.

Answer 6

What's better for our nation is to have liberals, conservatives and everyone in between put their heads together and cultivate a little more tolerance. It only takes a little bit of tolerance and acceptance to realize that no one holds a monopoly of the truth.

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God bless America!

Answer 7

The founders of this nation were quite liberal. I could appreciate that fact more if they didn't own slaves. Anyway, we just need to be Americans and work together and help each other realize the dream that is....

Answer 8

the yankee Communist celebration voted for bill Clinton O.J Simpson will vote for Hillary Liberals called an American widely used Hero a traitor because he advised them something they didn't wish to hearken to. Liberal Demos, like Hillary, Kerry. Gore etc. voted for the warfare and later denied it. Liberals have finished each and every thing to motivate and embolden the enemy ensuing in God purely knows what percentage deaths. Liberal Politicians have stated loudly "The warfare Is lost"! that is the finest element our troops want to hearken to. Liberals in Politics seem to purely want to get reelected on the rate of the country. They teach it time and time back. solidarity of our united states at time of warfare might want to come earlier getting elected. That makes them Un-Patriotic.

Answer 9

I'm a liberal (well in America I am, in Australia our liberals = conservatives, so I'm a labor person). You guys pride yourselves on your freedom, conservatives want to constrict that freedom.

Answer 10

I am a libertarian. Without question, it is the best direction for this country. Search Yahoo for the "World's Smallest Political Quiz".

Answer 11

i am a conservative i think it is better because they think you should be more responsible for yourself and not live off other peoples taxes and have the balls to do what is right and not stick your head in the sand like the libs