How can you be a Republican and a Democrat and a Liberal and a Conservative?

Question

Why does the wording of a question incite hatred and name calling, depending on the object of the question?

Answer 1

Considering your previous put down of all women, maybe it is your questions that incite hatred.

- Charles (above) is writing another book.

Answer 2

I'm what I would consider to be a moderate. I don't let any party tell me what I am ... on some issues I am more conservative ... on others I am more liberal. But I do not like extremismists ... radical left of right wing fanatics.

Furthermore, the labels are very, very dumb because what those terms stand for tends to change depending on whichever way the wind blows. If the GOP leadership declares, "abortion under certain conditions should be legal" would that ~then~ still be conservative? And if the DNC declares "abortion under certain conditions should for now on be illegal" would that ~then~ still be liberal?

Its all a bunch of hogwash, I say! So many folks are so darned insecure they feel they must latch on to some label or mantra in order to fit into some sort of box or in order to understand the world. It is always "this or that". "Right or wrong". "Black or white". It's all insecurity-based and relative of lower level thinking skills. :-)

Anybody who says "I am a conservative" or "I am a liberal" is full of crap because it is simply a LABEL and nobody - yes, nobody! is 100% one way or the other!

Answer 3

The name does not incite hatred; it's the person who interprets the meaning of the word that incites hatred. For example if I write the "Nazi", it incites certain images in peoples heads: Soldiers goose stepping and killing people in concentration camps. Certain words incite certain emotions. Shakespeare said something about a rose by any other name would still smell sweet. Words stand for things, and certain words bring a bad taste to peoples mouths; certain individuals want to bring that bad taste to people's mouths: To bring about controversy, descent and anger.

Answer 4

SICKO 2, you encounter "hatred" because your questions are offensive. They are offensive to everybody, Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Conservatives, even Anti-Federalists. Alexander Hamilton finds your questions offensive.

Charles, I think you've read Culture Warrior one too many times. It was an interesting book and all, but you don't need to regurgitate it. Bill O' Reilly has already pounded this whole "Culture War" thing into our heads, he doesn't need a deputy.

Answer 5

is there really a difference, i.e. a real difference between being a republican or democrat in the USA as far as their politics go?

They all advocate the same thing: the capitalistic world view of emperyalism.

Would be too naive to think that there is a difference. Look at wolfowitz, do you know what he is?

Answer 6

The reason there is hatred is because in the west, there is a cultural war. There are two sides; secular 1. progressives/ liberals/democrats versus 2. traditionalists/republican/ conservative.

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

Liberal democratic secular progressives want to change America by weakening the country as a nation and significantly destroying the social fabric that has been been built over 200 years of our existence.

This is a cultural war, the stakes are high, but I believe in America and a sense of morality will somehow prevail in the end.
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Answer 7

Good Troll. Try the sideways approach.

Answer 8

You could agree with some issues and not with others.

Answer 9

NO.... because words mean something

Answer 10

I am Centrist