Define liberalism as a political idiology?

Question

From where does it stem?

Answer 1

Liberalism has socialistic and communistic roots. The Democratic party has been influenced significantly by liberal thought including secular progressives and has changed the party and made it more left leaning. George P. Lakoff from the University of California, Berkeley is one of the fathers of secular progressives and the ACLU and is a major funding and enforcement body that influences liberal and secular progressive thought in the US.
Liberals and secularist progressives believe in the following:
Christians are obstacles to an "enlightened" society
Drugs should be legalized
Homosexual marriage is equal to marriage between a man and a woman
Abortion is good for society and is not the killing of a child
Euthanasia is also good for society and not killing an adult
America is the root of evil in the world
We should appease our enemies
People should be allowed into the US without legal process and there should be open borders
Government programs with high taxation are good for society
Tax cuts only help the rich

Answer 2

I have never seen the liberal handbook, but I call myself a liberal and it is not on the political spectrum today, you wouldn't recognize it. Try to imagine. The individual and small business owner reign supreme. Giving a corperation the rights of an individual is deemed ludicrus! They care only for profit not the puplic nor the survival of the planet.
Men and womem elected to public office would be held of the highest respect by all, because most positions would not pay enough to be considered to make living off of. They are truly a puplc service any corperation or business caught passing money to a puplic official could loose their licience to business for I don't know, I'm making this up as I go along 3 months to 10 years.
Government spending would be emphesized on an educated healthy and caring population. Military spending would be adequate. Our booming economy would be bursting with the brightest most educated people in the world. Every citizen would have universal health care. (prescriptions/dental/eyeglasses) this is not communism I'm talking about. I'm just saying the tax payers tell the government in exchange for the puplic funded universities doing all the research for new medicines etc. as well as funding all the risks the puplic gets treated. Not handed over at the end and privitized out of price for most.
We wouldn't need to be making bigger badder bombs because the world would love us as a truly free equal and just nation we love to travel and spread knowledge wealth and joy. In evey single spot on the plant if a disaister happens earthquake, typhoon, tsunami you will find Americans there withen hours with the best tecnology, proper eqipment, the know how, enthusiusm, and willing to share it all. Everybody feels joy when the Americans arrive. Anywhere.They never overthrow elected governments, yet they are often asked to take over. Which they always politely decline.
Their would be so many jobs in research education engineering, by now the planet would be running completely on solor and H2O energy because oil companies would never have been allowed to squash all breakthroughs to the planetery and humans race swan song.

Answer 3

It is an ideology that believes in the following social values: freedom, individualism, inequality, pragmatism, and humanism. Liberalism supports social insurance programs, because it believes that they encourage savings (thus being less dependent on the State), shares the risk of unemployment, injury and retirement amongst all those at risk. Liberalism believes in full employment as a social program, so that people support themselves and can be less dependent on the State.

Answer 4

The right wing knew it could never win in a democracy, where the rich are outnumbered 100 to 1. So they assigned half their brats to pretend to be Democrats and pervert liberalism. It is a good cop, bad cop scenario. The pseudo-liberals pretend to believe in something disgusting to the majority in order to trick the common people into voting for the rich-trash Republicans.

Limousine Liberals also put a moral costume on upper-class tyranny. For example, touchy-feely multiculturalism is really a cover up for hiring cheap immigrant labor. Environmentalism creates an artificial shortage of resources so the rich pigs can charge us more.

Answer 5

from the dictionary....

lib·er·al


adjective


1. broad-minded: tolerant of different views and standards of behavior in
others


2. politics progressive politically or socially: favoring gradual reform,
especially political reforms that extend democracy, distribute wealth more
evenly, and protect the personal freedom of the individual


3. generous: generous with money, time, or some other asset
My great-aunt was liberal in her bequests.


4. generous in quantity: large in size or amount
a liberal helping


5. language not literal: not limited to the literal meaning in translation
or interpretation


6. arts culturally oriented: concerned with general cultural matters and
broadening of the mind rather than professional or technical study
a liberal education


7. history of political liberalism: relating to a political ideology of
liberalism


noun (plural lib·er·als)


liberal person: somebody who favors tolerance or reform


[14th century. Via French from Latin liberalis , from liber "free" (source
of English liberty). The underlying sense is "suitable for a free (later
wellbred) person."]

Answer 6

liberalism

Political and economic doctrine that emphasizes the rights and freedoms of the individual and the need to limit the powers of government. Liberalism originated as a defensive reaction to the horrors of the European wars of religion of the 16th century (see Thirty Years' War). Its basic ideas were given formal expression in works by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, both of whom argued that the power of the sovereign is ultimately justified by the consent of the governed, given in a hypothetical social contract rather than by divine right (see divine kingship). In the economic realm, liberals in the 19th century urged the end of state interference in the economic life of society. Following Adam Smith, they argued that economic systems based on free markets are more efficient and generate more prosperity than those that are partly state-controlled. In response to the great inequalities of wealth and other social problems created by the Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America, liberals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries advocated limited state intervention in the market and the creation of state-funded social services, such as free public education and health insurance. In the U.S. the New Deal program undertaken by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt typified modern liberalism in its vast expansion of the scope of governmental activities and its increased regulation of business. After World War II a further expansion of social welfare programs occurred in Britain, Scandinavia, and the U.S. Economic stagnation beginning in the late 1970s led to a revival of classical liberal positions favouring free markets, especially among political conservatives in Britain and the U.S. Contemporary liberalism remains committed to social reform, including reducing inequality and expanding individual rights.

Answer 7

You have to ask?

Try to get through the day without some Liberal idea or program improving the quality of your life. You Can't

Answer 8

Being very generous. With other people's money. The Robin Hood Syndrome. Rob the rich to give to the poor.


lib·er·al [adjective]

1. broad-minded: tolerant of different views and standards of behavior in others -- as long as they agree with them.

2. politics: progressive politically or socially: favoring gradual reform, especially political reforms that extend Democracy, redistributes wealth based on need rather than ability, and protect the personal freedom of SOME individuals.

3. generous: generous with other people's money, time, or some other asset.

4. generous in quantity: large in size or amount 'a liberal helping'.

5. language not literal: not limited to the literal meaning in translation or interpretation. Redefining definitions to suit one's need of the moment.

6. arts culturally oriented: concerned with general cultural matters and 'broadening' of the mind rather than professional or technical study or thought.

7. history of political liberalism: relating to a political ideology of
liberalism.

Answer 9

Suspendor--brilliant response! Couldn't have said it better. Let me add just this though, in regard to 'liberalism's' modern expression: "Big Brother knows best."