Can you name specific issues that liberals, Democrats, socialists, etc are on the wrong side of history on?

Question

Explain what exactly and why. Keep your comments to just the question. Liberals can also include the "moderate" Republicans.
I am looking to get some ideas for a project I am working on.

Some starting points are:

1. Economics-cutting taxes increases revenue to the treasury
2. Appeasing terrorists works
3. The UN is useful

4. How about the Cold War? Democrats stated throughout the 1980's that if we take on the Russians, we will have all sorts of problems.

The responses are not limited to modern times.

To Mark D, you did not explain why on the death penalty and then you rant on about seperation of church and state. You ever read the 1st Amendment? Obviously, not. The First Amendment states that the government shall not establish a national religion nor prohibit the free exercise thereof. It says nothing about endorsing a religion. READ IT.

You did indirectly answer my question because liberals like you are wrong on this FALSE seperation of church and state argument because it does not exist.

Answer 1

Trying to negotiate with Islamic terrorists.
(Jimmy Carter / American hostages in Iran)

War on Poverty.
(LBJ)

Amnesty for illegal immigrants
(liberal representatives)

Proposal to make English the official American language was recently voted AGAINST by an overwhelming democratic majority.

National Health Care.
(Just what we need - our health in the hands of the bureaucracy that oversees Social Security and "simplifies" our income tax)

I'm sure if anyone thought about it long enough, there are many other examples.

However, to be fair, I'm also sure an equally long list could be developed for the conservatives, too.
The best solutions seem to always be near the middle - utilizing only the best and proven policies from both sides of the isle.

Answer 2

You are wrong and here's why. Is that the only problem you have with Bill? Bills of Deregulation were passed by a very Republican majority/controlled House and Senate. Barney Frank is a Dweeb. Please explain just how Unions are Destroying anything? If Employers treated their Employee's Fairly with a Fair Share of the Profits (IE Wages and Bennifits). There would NOT be any Unions. Here's a True example, told first hand, I was a employee at the time and still have friends working at this plant. The Union Employees at Freightliner Truck Manufactoring here in Portland Oregon gave back over $3.00 per hour in 2001. The plant here is closing operations in 2010 and moving to Mexico. Why? Because the people who gave their lives (30 to 40 years) on the line building a product have retired and the cost's of those Retireies Pentions that They Earned has made the cost of building trucks here in Portland, Cost prohibative. The VP that sold the Union employee's this bill of goods 7 years ago, then turned around and retired with a $7,000,000 cash bonus two weeks later (his brother, a line supervisor, told me directly). Seems too me that he was just paying for his own bonus with the sweat from the brow of the people busting ars all day, every day, to actually build the trucks. Uncontrolled Greed, aka De-Regulation of Business and Industry is what has brought America to it's knee's. The Auto worker on the line only makes $35k to $45k per year plus benniffits. This $100k+ number that Rusty Limbau and his friends are talking about is the cost of today's labor, Plus the cost of the Pensions these companies OWE to the Retired Union People, who followed the rules and played the game as they were told. Don't blame the People for the Faults of their CEO's.

Answer 3

No, there are none.

#1, that's a lie the republicans keep spreading. Progressive taxes (where the people with all of the money have to pay taxes, rather than only the poor and middle class paying) are a progressive idea, which is to say, on the right side of history. The idea that the poor have to pay taxes, and for it recieve no services is regressive, that is to say, the wrong side of history. (During Reagan and Dubya's reigns, the rich have gotten richer; the poor have grown more numerous, and the middle class have been disappearing.)

2. dems, liberals, or socialists don't say that (the idea they do is another lie by the right)

3. The UN, in fact, IS useful. UNICEF and UNHCR have saved untold numbers of lives, and improved the quality of live for even more, to cite two examples. Support of the UN is a forward-thinking idea. Hating it is on the wrong side of history.

But then, republicans seem to be building a bridge to the 13th century, so what could one expect?

Answer 4

No, unfortunately we can only guess which is the wrong or right side on history currently. It takes about half a century (50yrs) to completely analyze those actions, events or choices and there final results. A person could make an argument on anything currently happening but it would be mute until the data is collected.
As far as your homework goes, you'll have to look at past policies to adequately guage cause and effect and its long term results.

Your absolutely right on the point you made about the cold war, certainly seems like your not much in need of our input LOL

Answer 5

The death penalty is "cruel and unusual punishment."

Our Founding Fathers meant to erect a "high and impenetrable wall of separation between church and state" and this society used to always respect that wall -- until the "Far Right Christian Conservatives" started getting politically active at some point in the 20th Century. This wall prohibits any level of government from "endorsing religion." And no level of government ever did endorse religion UNTIL the "F.R.C.C.s" came along -- people who don't understand the Constitution.

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Whoa there fella! I am not liberal and I was describing what THEY believe in! You asked what issues are liberals on the wrong side of history and I'm giving you two examples of what they believe in!

Answer 6

One thing they have been consistently wrong about, and blindly so, is the idea that the government can run the economy. Libs/Dems/socialists have been ]meddling in the economy for nearly a century and with disasterous consequences each time. First they gave us the federal reserve which caused the depression, then they gave us tariffs and higher taxes which made the depression worse. Then along came roosevelt and gave us communism/fascism lite, and kept us in a depression for ten years until he hit on the brilliant idea of killing off the unemployed in a long and bloody war.

Keynesian economics is another area, similar to the one above, where they have been contantly wrong. They have also been wrong about wage controls like the minimum wage, gas price controls, and government-run healthcare.

Answer 7

No. You are wrong. Check your facts.
1. Cutting taxes is a republican program
2. Your opinion
3. The UN is useful. It is the USA that misuses it and throws a tantrum every time the US is criticized.

Answer 8

4. No Child Left Behind is a failure. You are a wonderful example to do the homework on. Don't forget to put your name at the top.

Answer 9

I think of illegal immigration. Most of my party are retarded about this issue. They think that amnesty will solve it. The illegals will always remain criminals in my eyes, just like Richard Nixon. The only solution is deportation and enforcement.