someone define the term "liberal"?

Answer 1

A mental disorder.

Answer 2

Let's see........well, you have to sit and picture this........it's not made up, so concentrate. A liberal is a person who believes that they have a purpose to change the world or their community. They never really never have a plan of action, just an end result. They will always say that rich people should be taxed to death even if they are one of the rich. They say everyone should conserve energy but drives the biggest SUV themselves and live in a 10 room house with only two kids.

Ask someone...anyone...."What would you do to solve this problem"? You will see if they are liberal or conservative by the first thing they say. If they say something like "they need to" then they are probably conservative, because conservatives believe in personal responsibility. If they say something like "we need to set up a program" then they are probably a liberal, because they want to take our tax dollars and try to solve the problem.

Here's an example.

The N. Korean nuclear arms buildup during the Clinton admin. what did the liberal do....gave them around 250 million dollars to stop seeking nuclear weapons and only pursue peaceful nuclear research. N. Korea accepted and promised to do so. End result, N. Korea use the money to further build up their nuclear arms and kick the UN inspectors out.

N. Korea fires missles they say are a test and threaten the world if we do not help feed them with more money and food during the current conservative Bush admin. What did the conservative do, ignore him and let the rest of the world finally get scared and go to the UN instead of the U.S. End result, N. Korea returns to the 6 party talks agrees to suspend nuclear arms buildup and allows UN inspectors back in.

You choose.

Answer 3

Bill Clinton is the icon liberal and George Bush is the icon conservative. We know they are poles and polls apart, but do the L and C words really tell us the difference between them? Under Bill Clinton one would suppose that American policies took a liberal turn. Yet, in his first term Bill Clinton announced, "The era of big government is over". Isn't big government a liberal standpoint? Also in his first term he supported the North

American Free Trade Agreement and helped the formation of the World Trade Organization, two very conservative economic moves. Then, in his second term he signed a landmark trade agreement with China, which opened the doors for Wal-Mart to take a strangle hold on American consumers. Meanwhile, President Bush, who is much more open about his own "conservatism" than Bill Clinton was about his liberalism, does not always fit the bill either. Small government being a virtue of conservatives, the government has grown under President Bush more than any other president in recent history. But Bush is a different case. Bush has molded his political stances based on the popular understanding of conservatism. Labeling himself as a "compassionate conservative" did wonders for his political career, although "compassionate conservatism" doesn't really mean anything. It is simply the accessible persona he chose because it gave him the best chance of getting in office. Considering the ubiquity of their use, a closer look at the terms "liberal" and "conservative" is necessary to determine their practicality.

I would argue that although these labels encompass a wider array of political thought than party classifications, they are dangerous to critical thought. Where the party terms directly refer to the organization that a politician is affiliated, the new terms have no such concrete connection to any one organization, only a loosely defined ideology, They are abstract and therefore malleable enough to bring harm to political understanding. This harm is most apparent when one considers the mass medias boxing of each politician along a liberal/conservative line that is supposed to allow the public a better understanding of a politicians view on any issue. What is most dangerous about this is how politicians are reacting to this classification system by placing their own public personas along this PH scale in order for their target constituency to more easily understand their positions. The mass media, which is of course tied to big business and the politicians themselves, has created this scale to make the sport of politics easier to digest by both covering politics using it and featuring analysts whose personas conveniently fit somewhere along it.

Answer 4

Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.

Tending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor.
Generous in amount; ample: a liberal serving of potatoes.
Not strict or literal; loose or approximate: a liberal translation.
Of, relating to, or based on the traditional arts and sciences of a college or university curriculum: a liberal education.

Answer 5

Don't care about your country, wants everybody to come and get it with out control or the law. Just go back to the 60's and see what happen during the war of Vietnam here in the USA, about the hippies, free love, smoking illegal drugs, in the streets, etc. and the big manifestation against the war all over the USA. We had chaos and all of these thanks to the Liberals. Shame !!

Answer 6

A liberal is a person who believes that everyone should share in the good fortune of a country and that everyone has equal rights.

As opposed to conservatives who believe only the rich should share in the good fortune - on the backs of everyone else and they have more rights than you do because they have more money.

Answer 7

lib·er·al –adjective

1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
2. (often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform.
3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism.
4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.
5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
6. of or pertaining to representational forms of government rather than aristocracies and monarchies.
7. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: a liberal attitude toward foreigners.
8. open-minded or tolerant, esp. free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.
9. characterized by generosity and willingness to give in large amounts: a liberal donor.
10. given freely or abundantly; generous: a liberal donation.
11. not strict or rigorous; free; not literal: a liberal interpretation of a rule.
12. of, pertaining to, or based on the liberal arts.
13. of, pertaining to, or befitting a freeman.
–noun 14. a person of liberal principles or views, esp. in politics or religion.
15. (often initial capital letter) a member of a liberal party in politics, esp. of the Liberal party in Great Britain.

Answer 8

A liberal is someone who will waste a dime if they were to find one in their pocket. A conservative on the other hand will save the dime and invest it to let it grow.

Answer 9

liberal = tax and spend, government handouts, no interest in strong military!

Answer 10

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/liberal