What do yall think?
2007-02-27 04:08:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
are you kidding? He led a revolution! He was beyond liberal, he was a radical.
2007-02-27 04:13:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 1⤋
If one looks at mainstream thought in George Washington's day he was quite liberal. Conservatives at the time believed in rule by a king or other potentate. Washington believed in a whole new concept of a Democratic-republic.
So, yes George Washington, for his time, was liberal and because of him America gained independence from England.
2007-02-27 12:17:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Now come on, do you not think that the decision to break from England was not a revolutionary idea. That's progressive man. George Washington and the framers of the new Constitution were all liberals. Liberating America and Americans to be free. It was the conservatives that fought for the King.
2007-02-27 12:14:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
George Washington WAS a liberal, as all Republicans were in that time period. By our current definition, all of the founding fathers were liberals.
2007-02-27 12:58:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
George Washington was a moderate or a centrist as someone said here. The conservatives were called Tories back in those days and were loyal to the King therefore considered traitors. So much for your right wing foot stomping!
2007-02-27 12:56:46 · answer #5 · answered by charlie_the_carpenter 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most of the founding fathers (I believe GW was as well) were Deists.. which automatically would have had them placed as "liberal" by a few people in todays world.. but when it's all said and done his beliefs were very middle of the road.. especially for the time (which is what liberal and conservative are based off of.. against the views of the time.. heck.. a conservative from todays world would have been burned at the stake 300 years ago)
2007-02-27 12:16:37 · answer #6 · answered by pip 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
WASHINGTON WAS A LIBERAL
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington
2007-02-27 12:14:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
What do you think a liberal is ? It's someone who is progressive. Washington did not want to conserve the system of being a colony to England. He wanted to liberate the colonies. WASHINGTON WAS A LIBERAL.
2007-02-27 12:20:37 · answer #8 · answered by Count Acumen 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
He was a liberal, in the context of the day. All of the Founding Fathers were absolutely radical in their thinking at the time. The mere thought of a representative democracy when every single government of the day was some form of monarchy was revolutionary in every sense of the word.
In fact, the monarchists in Colonial America were even then known as Tories, the conservative party.
2007-02-27 12:15:52 · answer #9 · answered by irish_giant 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Who says Washington wasnt a liberal? He led a revolution against a tyrannical government. Sounds like what we liberals in the US are doing now!
2007-02-27 12:31:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm a liberal so a lot of people think that I don't think.
Yes I do think America would have gained its independence from England.
2007-02-27 12:14:40 · answer #11 · answered by J 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋