I'm proud to be a liberal American, anyone else ?

Answer 1

Woohoo - it is official. Libs are coming back.

Answer 2

Are you SURE that you really are a liberal...? How to the left will you go with your ideology...? Many of the so called conservatives are labeling anyone who votes Democratic or wants to pull out of Iraq a liberal.

I'm voting for Hillary Clinton and I want our troops back home but I'm about as far from the left as anyone can be without leaning right.

Hillary is a moderate as am I.

Answer 3

Absolutely! Liberal should never be a bad word. The Republicans use it as if it were a synonym of "traitor" or "communist". Really, being liberal simply means that you are open-minded, value individual liberties (every American should join the ACLU), and believe that the government is capable of doing good things for people. Actually, there are areas in which I am perhaps more moderate. For example, I support the death penalty and I would lock up most violent offenders and throw away the key. But in almost all other areas I'm pretty damn liberal and proud of it.

Answer 4

Yes, I am proud to be American, Liberal, in that order.

Answer 5

I'm definitely proud to be a liberal American. "Liberal" signifies an openness to change and respect for individual liberties within a societal framework in which all have equal opportunity. It means that we are forward thinking people and we favor a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties. The liberals are the idealists, the people who still believe, in spite of everything that has happened, that they can make the world a better place for everybody. And, many of us liberals try to live by those words with our actions. I love being a liberal.
I will be more proud of my country as a whole when it comes to it's senses about the backwards direction this administration has taken us. And, as far as I'm concerned the Democratic party has moved too far to the right under Bill Clinton and hasn't found it's way back to where it belongs. It has become more corporate and less about individual liberties in favor of corporate interests. It needs to grow a spine and shed it's reptilian corporate skin to become progressive again. Sorry, but Hillary is not liberal and she definitely is NOT progressive.

Answer 6

Andrew Jackson was the president for whom the term was first coined. He owned slaves, and was one of the "Heroes" of the annihilation of the Cherokee culture.

I fall to the left, but refuse to allow myself to be called liberal.

Other famous "liberals"

Truman dropped the bomb on Japan despite compelling evidence that they were ready to surrender with out the US having to invade.

Johnson escalated the war in Viet Nam based on the "Tonkin Gulf Incident", that we now know to have been fabricated.

Clinton selling good paying manufacturing, and high tech professional jobs to China and India.

H. Clinton, Feinstein, Kerry, and Edwards voting to go to war with Iraq.

It is time for true progressives to wake up to the big con job. The notion that we actually have a choice of two ( and only two) political ideologies.



NADER '08

Answer 7

Absolutely, the more so since I actually evolved my position from being a teenage conservative Reaganite. Reagan made me a liberal.

Answer 8

Sure. All great change in this country has come from liberals fighting against the old oppressive conservative ideals.

Liberals are the true great believers of freedom. Conservatives believe in freedom for those whom they deem worthy (mostly white, upper class, straight, Christian males.)
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Answer 9

Not if it involves me liking that stupid "proud to be an American" song. I do like being American though.

Answer 10

I'm not a liberal...but I'm glad you feel good about yourself

Answer 11

I guess if being a realist is liberal then you can count me in...