2007-03-30 05:45:22 · 10 answers · asked by ST 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Good, decent, honest Americanism.
2007-03-30 05:53:47 · answer #1 · answered by Darth Vader 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The modern liberal looks back on civilization and only one thing is for sure, that none of the ideas created by man religion, philosophies, ideologies, governments has created a world that is void of war, poverty, crime and injustice. So they are convinced that since all that these ideas of man have proved to be wrong the real cause must be found or only found in the attempt to be right. If nobody ever thought they were right what would we disagree about. If we didn’t disagree we wouldn’t fight and if we didn’t fight we wouldn’t go to war. Without war there would be no poverty, without poverty there would be no crime and without crime there would be no injustice, it’s a utopian vision. And all we need to do to usher in this utopia is to reject fact, reason, evidence, truth, morality, logic and decency. All the tools you and I use to attempt to be better people and make the world more right by trying to be right, by siding with right, by recognizing what is right and moving towards it.
So what you have is people who think the best way to eliminate rational thought and the attempt to be right is to work to always try to prove that right isn’t right and that wrong isn’t wrong. You can see this in John Lennons song, Imagine there is NO country, not imagine great countries, not imagine defeat the Nazis, imagine no religions and the key line is imagine a time when anything and everything a man values is devalued to the point where there is nothing left to kill or die for. Obviously this is not going to happen over night there is always going to be religions, but they will do their best to denigrate them. There is still going to be countries that are going to do what they can to get us to seed our national sovereignty to one world bodies. But in the mean time, every thing that they believe everything that is designed, everything they teach us in schools, everything they make into movies, tv shows, newspaper stories that they pick and how they spin them have but one criteria which is to tear down what is good and elevate that which is wrong, does it tear down the behaviors that lead to success and elevate the ones that lead to failure so there is nothing left to believe in.
2007-03-30 12:50:10 · answer #2 · answered by CaptainObvious 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Are you talking about it in terms of old world definitions of 'liberal economics' as per Adam Smith? Or, are you talking about it in terms of contemporary political thinking? There is a difference you know.
And, I can tell you this, captaino… is a very confused person as to the definition of liberal in contemporary terms.
2007-03-30 12:58:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My interpretation of a Liberal is that they feel that government owes them. That freedom is free. They play dirty fight dirty and really dont give a crap about this country!! Hows that for starters!!
2007-03-30 13:03:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is a dumb question to post on here, as all you are going to get is liberals saying positive things and conservatives saying negative things , which gets us nowhere.
2007-03-30 12:49:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Basically focused on civil rights for all equally and for more oversight over business and the environment.
2007-03-30 12:49:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aspriration to a free-thinking, non-corfmormist plan to progress our best social and ethical values.
There.Done.
2007-03-30 12:48:58 · answer #7 · answered by Da Man 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A philosophy that approaches socialism.
2007-04-01 12:54:17 · answer #8 · answered by edward m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
open to change and progressive ideas to support the well being of the population
2007-03-30 12:48:56 · answer #9 · answered by Diggy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
necessary and wonderful when used properly and not just as a label.
2007-03-30 12:49:00 · answer #10 · answered by pip 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋