What is the ONE MAJOR ISSUE that you dislike about the right/left?

Question

What keeps you from seeing things from their point of view?

As a Conservative, I have trouble with the left's views on morality/values.

Answer 1

I have problems with both sides trying to force their extremist views on others through legislation. Both sides do it. Not every conservative is a evangelical Christian warmonger and not every liberal is a atheist hippie pinko. Listening to those in power one would believe otherwise...

So, basically, my problem with the extreme right is their attempting to force religion on everyone, and my problem with the extreme left is their attempting to remove religion from everything. Religion has no place in politics, and politics no place in religion.

Answer 2

The truth is in years of selling us hate on both sides we have forgotten what both sides stand for anymore. Do we really know what our founding father intended this nation to be? My trouble with right is the dumbing down of general public - wedge issues, propaganda, and breaking down the opposition by dehumanizing them. Examples abortion, gay marriage things that even the politicians don't believe in - Dick Cheney, saying anyone that is against the Iraq war is not a patriot etc.
The problem with Left is their tendencies to not respect our sovereignty and at times being absolutely against war. Example that they would rather support illegal immigrants crossing the border and shooting at the border agents instead of the border agents and people such as John Kerry.

Answer 3

My biggest issue with the left is their support of government regulation for everyday issues. I do not believe that there should be laws dictating things such as the types of fat in food. Most important to me is that I do not believe I should be prohibited to say words that others don't like. For every pissant law and/or political correctness lawsuit the left creates our freedoms are slowly degraded.

It's interesting to note that this didn't use to be the case. Liberals used to be the biggest champions of our freedoms. I guess that's proof that if you remain too smug in your convictions you fail to be subjective causing stagnation and hypocrisy. This goes for every political group.

You may notice that my Q's and A's on here are filled with sarcasm and heavily barbed dark humor. Oh yeah and don't forget the name calling! I think that we should all grow up and get over our fixation on words and names. I seriously don't believe that a single person on Yahoo Answers has cried over being called a "flipping F-wad git". If so, get the hell off Yahoo Answers and go to a shrink to discuss your self-esteem issues. I refuse to hand over my right to say inflammatory things and I expect those on the left with whom I do not agree to do the same thing. Even if I do think they are morons :)

Answer 4

At the top of the list for me is the left trying to move the nation toward socialism. I like America the way it is. Problems can be handled with far less change, I believe.

Answer 5

The Right has spent money that we do not have and will never have. This country will be in debt for centuries after this administration is done with their un-paid tax cuts and there elective and unnecessary war. They blame the left for spending and big government and they are ten times worse. What is worst then that is that they can brainwash 1/2 the American people that they are better at running this country, which clearly they are not. Please do not call modern day Republican "Conservative" anymore because its just not true.

Answer 6

um... an actual question... not just a bias slam... I'm almost impressed... keep it up, you wear it much better...

but, moving on... my big issue is really, overall, puting the economy's value over the value of everything else...

if abortion helped the economy, I think conservatives would be in favor of it...

God knows they push everything else, regardless of who it hurts, if it's good for the economy...

anti-union, anti-health care, anti-minimum wage, anti-welfare, anti-education, anti-business restrictions and on and on, and 99 percent of the time they say "it will hurt the economy"

I realize we are all "part of the economy" and that it "needs to be strong"...

but at the same time... there are AMERICANS out there that are HURTING... and that DO WORK HARD... and that do DESERVE SOME HELP... and we can't just ignore them because Exxon's stock may go down .05 percent this quarter...

and some of these things, may actually help the economy too... like "raising minimum wage" under the current plan would give businesses tax cuts and give more money to the lower class, and they will spend it, thus stimulating the economy... but their numbers aren't large enough to affect inflation to any notable degree...

and healthy workers show up more, work harder and are, in the long run, better for the economy... and more and more jobs are dropping health insurance, due to costs... (and also the money businesses would save in health insurance would be mind blowing)

I think we can have the best economy in the world... and still help those that need help...

Answer 7

Well, I'm a Conservative, and I think that sometimes, we need to listen, not necessarily follow out, but think about the opposites ideas.

As for the far-Left, in general, I think their plans are short-sighted and well, naive.

*Boogity Man: It's the Liberal-Extremo food police that's banning trans-fats left and right and preaching to our kids about how we're going to DIE if we cut down one frggin' tree, and it's bad to hunt, etc, etc, etc. But I think the planning thing may go double on the Conservative part, though generally less.

Answer 8

My answer would be the hypocrisy of the left. They say they support the troops yet they don't really. They say they are for choice, but how about school vouchers? They say they are tolerant, yet look at "boogity's" answer. Al Gore's out there trying to scare people with global warming, but he flies around in a jet plane. They say they are open-minded but they want to get rid of any scientist who disagrees with their bogus global warming theories. The list goes on and on.

Answer 9

The man who was number two at Bush's office of faith-based initiatives was shocked to see that Bush wasn't really the good man he claimed to be. The man wrote a book in which he talked about how Chuck Colson, of Watergate and prison ministry fame, told him that Colson's job was to sell Nixon's policies to certain groups. Colson said the religious conservatives were the easiest to sell, because they unquestioningly accepted what authority figures said.

Because of the horrific and lasting damage done by the conservatives' willingness to believe and support Bush as he eviscerated our constitution - remember Gonzales says the protection against suspension of habeus corpus doesn't mean every citizen is entitled to habeus corpus - drained our treasury into the pockets of his friends, tortured innocent people in our name (our military says 90% of those tortured at Abu Graihb were innocent of any wrong doing), fiddled while the planet warmed, and pretended to be Christian while using death and mayhem to accomplish his goals, I have to pick this trait as the one major thing I dislike most.

You have no idea about liberal's morals, as you've demonstrated from your many questions.

Liberal morals are Christ's morals - feed the hungry, clothe the naked, focus on the log in your own eye and not the speck in your neighbors, love your enemy, 'cause any old gentile can love their friend. That you find leftist values troublesome is mindboggling, since you, I have to guess, consider yourself a Christian.

Answer 10

The major thing that keeps me from seeing the left's point of view is the left's point of view. And I'm sure those four kids came from the stork. LOL