They're always reminding us Bush didn't win the 2000 election by a majority. They often tell us how divided the country is, how 2/3 of the country dislikes Bush, how "red states are turning blue" because they're "tired of all the crap."
Then two seconds later, they say they're ostracised from the rest of us, how the "herd mentality" keeps us all Republicans, how they are branded unpatriotic for being brave enough to stand out.
Seriously, how brave does one have to be to remain liberal in America? How brave do you have to be to post "Bush is Hitler" on Yahoo? How many liberals in America have actually been ostracised?
So which is it -- does half the country agree with you, or not?
2006-07-25 08:53:52 · 6 answers · asked by cirque de lune 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Because that's the way they are .They like being portrayed as victims.and they love victims.that is their voting bloc.Victims of everything. If everyone decided to be self -reliant tomorrow, they would fade away like smoke from the end of a shotgun by Friday.
2006-07-25 09:10:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
yawn
but to answer simply.
the party is a coalition of many groups.
many diffrent intrests, many groups that alone would never have a voice.
Together we stand
divivded we fall.
The Party is for the underdog, not that as a whole the party is a minority.
if im not mistaken at the time of 2000 most people identified with the liberal party.
thats why you could say the moral majority was niether......niether moral nor the majority.
the right wing is a heard because it is not made up of many diffrent voices..........it is people who try to be exactly the same.
Brave?
most people who are pro war should be in the war? no?
i would't send you to war without good reason.
the adminstration is using the patriot act to spy on peace activist in the US.
you don't care do you.......the truth is out there.
2006-07-25 15:57:12 · answer #2 · answered by nefariousx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost all of the educated, open minded American population agrees with us, but that may not be the majority of this country.
The polls prove Bush's approval level is at an all-time low of any president ever. You can't argue with that, no matter which side of the political fence you are on.
The herd mentality is public ignorance. Agressive people who feel it is necessary to use any means necessary to attack those who disagree with them (and no, I don't just mean conservatives).
To be liberal does not mean calling Bush names. Try being liberal by supporting a friend who is gay or a friend who is having an abortion. Try walking through the crowds at Planned Parenthood with your friend and see if that takes courage. Liberals don't sit outside gun shops and shout at people buying guns. No one can argue that guns certainly kill people. But yet conservatives find it necessary to harass people during very difficult times in their lives.
Being a conservative in this country seems to mean trying to make everyone else agree with you, through coersion or force. Being a liberal means a lot of things, which is why it is difficult to put all liberals into one group - everyone has their own agenda. Some are focused on the environment, some on gay rights, some on pro-choice, some on education reform, some on social security. Conservatives are unified in the fact that anything progressive is antipatriotic.
Liberals are definitely the majority, but we are not unified.
2006-07-25 16:02:12 · answer #3 · answered by Calindi15 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bush and his cronies have violated the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution and launched a domestic spying program that Dick Nixon would've envied. They've been gathering information on anyone and everyone who disagrees with them.
Can you imagine why?
It isn't funny that Americans, ordinary slobs like me, experience real moments of fear that their own government will retaliate against those they consider, in their own self-serving, twisted definition of the term, un-American.
And while you're laughing out of the other side of your face, remember the very real existence of Tricky Dick's "Enemies List".
I have a copy of it, if you'd care to do some reading.
But, of course, you don't.
2006-07-25 16:07:09 · answer #4 · answered by St. Hell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They claim both to be the majority party and will take back both houses of congress in November and to be suppressed by the Rs.
I guess that's what you do when you have no answers to the real problems that face the nation.
2006-07-26 08:51:43 · answer #5 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bush stole the president seat
2006-07-25 15:57:23 · answer #6 · answered by idontkno 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋