What are liberals so afraid of?

Question

When faced with a truly outspoken (or truly entertaining) conservative opinion, I have noticed that Liberals often (always) try to silence the voice. Rarely do they take on the topic, ansering questions directly and presenting facts that back up the position. More often than not, they will resort to insults, irrelevance, and discrediting. When I thought I was a Liberal, I thought it was good debate, keeping the opponent on the ropes. After a while, I noticed that it was simply a good way to dismantle the debate. I realized, I can't be proven wrong if I can sabotage the debate, but I also can't be proven right. With this question, I expect the liberals out there to insult me, change topic, and blame me. I do NOT expect an honest answer.

Answer 1

Just because you can't be proven right doesn't mean that you can't still bring out the wrongs in your oponent's statements (not lifestyle, background, etc.). And how can you tell me that someone that is brave enough to go against the conservative/safe/popular opinion is afraid? The whole point is giving a voice to a topic that didn't have one.

And speaking of dismatling debates, I noticed that you had no evidence to support any of your statements. I can't even say that your paragraph is filled with fallacies, because it is only filled with YOUR OPINION. Try taking a polisci class or a debate class, then make arguments that you can support.

Answer 2

Surprisingly I have seen this as a habbit of both ends on the political spectrum. Not only have I come across many liberals like this when I was a conservative, I have also come across plenty of conservatives when I was a liberal.

I grew so sick of both parties I've become a moderate who's now a registered independant. Every time I peek into the childish battle field of the politics answering section all I see are insults flying back and forth between liberals and conservatives and I rarely see a decent point, question, or argument made by either of the two. If conservatives would stop exagerating their attacks on the lack of courge to fight and liberals would stop blowing funny phrases out of proportion the two of you could actually sit down and settle things.

Charchter attacks only appeal the atackers and attract those who can't think well enough on their own. When a conservative is asking what liberals are so afraid of liberals are saying "hey we're talking, but not all of those who agree have the courage to speak up to arrogant neo conservatives who do nothing but slander meaningless facts that can be worked around by using representation."

The next time you go pick on the liberals, ACCURATELY defend yourself on your vies of illegal immagration or abortion in a much more MATURE way, or else you are just making your self look like a fool as well as make an *** out of the right wing, which embarasses all those like me who were once there.

Liberals- same to you!

Answer 3

Nothng but lsing all of our fredoms and rights to a right wing theocracy .
If you want name calling just listento Rush Bill o Reilly , Sean Hannity and of copurse Ann Coulter.
Itis typical of right wingers to call names becaise they are wrong of copurse once the name calling strts it is hard to stop . i will say the left idsick of beong called upatriotic , supporting trerroists, soft n crime and on and on because the do not agree wth the far right . Oh and my favorite is liberals hate god .Wrong they thing relgion nad governemnt should bne seperate i do too. juist lok at the wonderfull theocracies in the middleeast . IRan a nuice place ?

We are afraid of losing every thing that makes this nation great of losing the middle class . of becoing a thrid world nation in a decade or less. of alot that has been messee up by Bu$h and his corrupt cronies. we are afraid of theKen lays who ruin lives then off thme selves rather than do time think the coiuld srew the little guy 0nelast time but No at least his debtors can come after his family and estate

That iswhat lieral ar afraid of to much power in with out any ceck I do mnot want ot lie in a relgious facist Police state

Oh taking the figh to the ismaitsts we do not haeenough troops to even egin . ther are billins of them and they all hate us andare willing ot die toi kil uss . think about that one howw do yopu fight that mentality excpet wioth nukes ?

Answer 4

Look at it this way, conservatives hate liberals and vice versa. If you ask me that is what the government wants, they want people of different political parties at each others throats so that we won't notice it when they pass crazy legislation that neither one of those two parties would want to happen to begin with. If you ask me the people need to get on the same wavelength, because it seems to me that the governments plan is working we are all against each other and that is what they want in Washington. The American people need to unite to get this country straight again, we need to put our differences aside and work to make this country what we loved about it originally.

Answer 5

The right-wing nut jobs have been cowering in fear for the past 5 years. They see a "terrorist" behind every bush. They fear about 10 nations in the world who, in reality, are no threat at all. They fear Mexican immigrants. They fear not having a handgun. They fear the Apocalypse and the End Times. The Republicanazi Party is the party of fear. Under The Chimp, the name of the country should be changed to "The Paranoid States of America."

Answer 6

Everything you said applies to the neoconservatives not to real liberals or progressives. You have done the typical neoconservative act of turning everything around that you do and blame someone else. Typical hypocrisy of your kind. I am a progressive but don't pin that on all conservatives. Real Conservatives such as William Buckley have my great respect. But you probably don't even know who he is. He does not go around blaming others who disagree with him for everything the way you do. He simply but eloquently states his premises and backs them. up. He is a gentleman..something the new conservatives don't know how to do.

Answer 7

I'm a libertarian...I think conservatives and liberals are equally obnoxious. Seems like every time I get in a discussion with a Conservative or Liberal, we end up talking about some stupid, non-relevant moral issue.

I hope we elect a gay republican who owns a chain of abortion clinics and papermills.

Answer 8

Why do conservatives hide from the changing world???? In a time when great change is happening you need a leader who will change with it not try to control it!

Answer 9

I have often presented arguments on this site to the conservative republicans, and I have never gotten an intelligent response from them. The only answer I ever get is that I hate America, I love terrorist, I'm uneducated (have a master's degree btw) I'm a democrap, libertard, or that Clinton cheated on his wife and lied about it.
So no, it's not only the liberal side that uses insults and bullying tactics to try to make their point.

Answer 10

Since I have no political affiliation(hate 'em all), I can share an observation that there seems to be SO many conservatives going off on liberals, but not many liberals going off on conservatives. They seem to be arguing with themselves. Also, if these young conservatives are drinking the Kool-Aid, then why aren't they enlisted and fighting in Iraq, instead of sitting in front of a computer and yelling at no one in particular. Just an observation