With counseling or some sort of therapy?
2007-02-09 17:17:23 · 17 answers · asked by conservative_122 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
With castration and a labotomy we could be republicans.
2007-02-09 17:20:59 · answer #1 · answered by Speedracer 3 · 11⤊ 7⤋
Define a liberal and I will tell you. Everyone has an opinion about the facts, so start from there. If you do not agree with another person's opinion then what you're really asking is "Why can't I seem to convince this person to believe as I do - how can I make them think like I think, believe as I do, do as I want them to do?" Serious questions deserve serious answers with time and thought devoted to all angles.I think you will find that if you devote your energies, there is much more gray then either black or white.
In general labels help to define one thing from another for easy reference. But your question is too broad and loaded with presumption. I would say that someone who was too liberal with their money, spending beyond their means and amassing large amounts of debt would need financial counseling. I would also say that someone who was too liberal with their advice, dispensing it to everyone with an intent to convert everyone to their same beliefs would need some sort of counseling. On the other hand, I believe that without some social controls, laws, police enforcement, courts, judges, religion, family, friends, institutions of learning we would all be screwed. I would need more information to answer your question thoughtfully. I just don't know what you mean by liberal.
2007-02-09 17:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by lawofconstantcomposition 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Can the U.S. welfare system be reformed? In 1991, tough economic times have forced many Americans onto the welfare rolls and as a result, poverty's high cost has a prime spot on the national agenda. Congress is trying to figure out which road to take toward welfare reform. The Democratic front-runner, Gov. Bill Clinton, tells voters he has been shaping welfare policy issues for years in Arkansas. And President Bush supports the states' efforts to combat welfare dependency and spend less.
It is in the states, not Washington, D.C., where real change is underway. States are trying to cope with shrinking budgets by writing their own plans, some of which are dubbed Workfare, Learnfare or Bridefare. Each is a social contract with the state designed to change welfare recipients' behavior. Benefits are lost for failing to comply, but recipients can be rewarded if requirements are met.
The states' plans have their critics. Advocates for the poor argue that many programs are punitive and may spring from a racial backlash. They fear that in a climate unsympathetic to welfare recipients, states may be overzealous.
2007-02-09 23:08:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually Cassandra is wrong about Churchill being a lifelong liberal:
The divisions in the Liberal Party led to Churchill being defeated by E. D. Morel at Dundee in the 1922 General Election. Churchill now rejoined the Conservative Party and was successfully elected to represent Epping in the 1924 General Election.
With the defeat of the Conservative government in 1929, Churchill lost office. When Ramsay MacDonald formed the National Government in 1931 Churchill, who was now seen as a right-wing extremist, was not invited to join the Cabinet. He spent the next few years concentrating on his writing, including the publication of the History of the English Speaking Peoples.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRchurchill.htm
Some attribute the quote that Scarlett mentioned to George Bernard Shaw and say that Winston loved to repeat it. One of his quotes though was:
A liberal is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air. - Winston Churchill
http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/winston_churchill.htm
2007-02-09 17:54:01 · answer #4 · answered by hershadow1 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
When someone like you speaks of "reforming" someone with "counseling" or "some sort of therapy" I can only envision hours of water boarding and humiliation, that seems to be the method of choice for your Ilk. I need no reformation, thank you. I am happy with my views and opinions.
2007-02-09 17:25:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 4⤋
What you mean is strap us down to a table and brain wash us through torture. I think you need to be enlightened. What I mean by that is, we need to rip off your head and throw it through a brick wall.
2007-02-09 23:00:59 · answer #6 · answered by Count Acumen 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Winston Churchill, a lifelong liberal, did not make that stupid, shallow, ignorant comment so often attributed to him.
Liberals care about other people. This is the natural state for humans. Therefore, it is conservatives, with their self-absorbed sociopathy, who need therapy.
In fact, conservatives are far more likely to have had abusive parents than liberals. It accounts for their disdain for compassion and hatred of the human condition.
2007-02-09 17:29:53 · answer #7 · answered by cassandra 6 · 7⤊ 5⤋
If by "reforming" them you mean turning them conservative, I suppose it's possible. It would be much easier to make liberals dumb enough to be conservative than it would be to make conservatives smart enough to become liberals.
2007-02-09 17:43:57 · answer #8 · answered by chimpus_incompetus 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Would be nice but unless we get someone with a brain in the oval office, I doubt it's going to happen anytime soon. In the meantime it seems that we'll have to put up with it.
2007-02-09 17:22:12 · answer #9 · answered by Beachman 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I would suggest both you and the "liberals". need reform. You are both fanatics. Live as countrymen, not as counterparts.
2007-02-09 17:24:43 · answer #10 · answered by apple juice 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Maybe they should be sent to one of Bushes Police State detention camps to be brain washed.
2007-02-09 17:26:27 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋