What does this mean?

Question

What does it mean to be a liberal?

Answer 1

It means you want the government too take care of everything for you instead of taking care of yourself.
Liberals are for personal freedoms like the right to choose abortion and for gay marriage.
What need to reduce the size of government and give people freedom with responsibility.
If you want to ride a motorcycle without a helmet don't ask the government to pay your hospital bill when your head is smashed.

Answer 2

Liberal means "Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas." Supposedly people who are liberal politically are more tolerant of others. However, the problem is that liberals seem to only be tolerant of those who agree with them. If someone has a more traditional view of the world, that person is not tolerated and is, at times, verbally persecuted for believing that way. A TRUE liberal would have a live and let live attitude and would let me believe my more traditional beliefs without giving me a hard time.

Answer 3

American liberalism—that is, liberalism in the United States of America—is a broad political and philosophical mindset, favoring individual liberty, and opposing restrictions on liberty, whether they come from established religion, from government regulation, from the existing class structure, or from multi-national corporations.

Answer 4

They tend to look at the future and say "Think how great things could be." They tend to be in favor of social welfare programs and greater personal freedoms.

Liberals are generally environmentalists.

Liberals also tend to favor labor unions and higher taxes for the wealthiest members of society. They tend to also favor higher minimum wages and are often more inclined to support scientific endeavors.

Answer 5

it means, people like to change current condition.