Is there anything liberals actually like about the USA?

Question

Hmm, superpolitics:
My question was: is there anything liberals actually like about the USA. And your answer was, George Bush sucks. Interesting. I guess your answer would be ‘no’ then?

Answer 1

I think you are mistaking criticism for dislike. Think of it this way, Liberals love the US so much that any policy or practice that moves the country away from the great ideals that founded it are immediately reacted against.
You know, that sounds just like the way conservatives would describe themselves. Funny huh? How both sides can be vociferous for the same reason and still disagree?

Answer 2

George Bush and America, are two separate things, to think otherwise, is not only pure ignorance, but also as bad as British loyalists during the revolution wanting to continue serving their King.
There are many thingsto love about America, but Bush's egocentric policies aren't one of them.
To think I can't love America, and dislike Bush at the same time, is nothing more than putting an individual on the same level of an entire country. You might as well set him up on a thrown, and crown him the King of your life, if that is the way you think, and apparently from your comment, it must be.

Just because liberals complain about certain things they don't like about our system, which is probably 100th of a 100th of a percent of everything that is America, doesn't mean their isn't many many many other issues that are liked about America. The difference is, liberals don't feel the need to ignore the issues they dislike, just because they affect someone else.

You can love pizza while hating the pepperoni. Just pick it off!

With the logic you are trying to imply, if I dislike something my children do, I must not like or love them. HA! the same argument they tried to use when being scolded for something at 8 years old!

Answer 3

Here's my best way to explain it: I love my family, wouldn't trade them for anything. None of them, however, are perfect. There are times that they do things I don't like, and vice versa. Does that lessen my love for them. Of course not. I have the same feeling about America. I know I am lucky to be here. The standard of living is wonderful. I like my television shows, movies and sports teams. I make a decent living at a job I enjoy. I am ever mindful of how lucky I am. That does not mean. however that our nation is without flaws. Its a Nation of 300 million people. Our government is trying to solve cultural, economic and political problems that have never been solved. If I happen to disagree with how they go about it, as is my right, why does that make me unpatriotic or mean that I hate America. The very fact that I care enough to voice an opinion shows I care about it enough to be concerned with its course. And, Frankly, I think its unpatriotic to forget that we, as modern day Americans have a great view because we're standing on the shoulders of giants. Those who came before us and built the nation into what its become. Idle talk about the greatness of our nation without looking at ways it can still be improved is useless. The greatest gift we can give those who have put their sweat and blood into making this country great is to never give up on the idea that it can be better. There is no reason we shouldn't be better than we are in education. The fact that we are 30% of the polution for the entire world is unacceptable. These are just a couple of a myriad of issues we can be addressing as a people. We can argue back and forth, Liberal and Conservative about who's at fault because our leaders spend more time blaming than fixing. Or we can, as Americans together let our government know that we demand they be a government worthy of the legacy of those who built this country. Thats what political dissent is about. Not hating your country, but loving it fully enough to believe it can always do better. I hope I explained that well enough.

Answer 4

This could be a really conflicted question. But I will answer it from a different slant. It seems to me that there is a self-loathing complex in the West period. This is especially true with the Academic Left; I'll stick with them, since I have the most experience interacting with them You can hardly go to a class on the university campus anymore without hearing how bad American Culture, or Western Culture is. It must be torn down so that every culture in the world, no matter how barbaric, is 'equal.' Now personally I view the "value" of a culture based on societal advancement and freedoms of the individual. But Academic Liberals grow up in a culture that is by far the freest in the world. They are allowed to say essentially anything they want, do essentially anything they want; yet it's our culture that is the most pervasively evil... A questionable stance, in my opinion. This is simply on culture, governmentally I would never strain to answer that question because it is even more complex than I can answer now, after a long, long day.

Answer 5

I don't like it, I love it. It's not perfect, but it's the best out there.

Why does anyone feel the need to answer for us?

I am a taxpayer. Every Liberal I know is one. Conservatives are NOT the only ones who pay into the system.

What cheese? Oh, the one my well-to-do Republican neighbor used to dress down for to stand in line to collect?

Answer 6

I happen to be "liberal" and I love this country, however, I also see many problems being perpetuated by our government on both sides. You cannot beat the freedoms allowed in this country. We have the widest variety of everything here, we just need to use it properly.
All we need are polititians that actually listen to the people, and find compromise. Then our country will truly be a country like what our forefathers imagined.

Answer 7

Liberals LOVE having Freedom of Speech. The problem is, they don't think about it too much. Barbra Streisand and Sean Penn, Jane Fonda and the rest of them ... they think nothing of spouting off their views on television, at lectures and during speeches, and using their "status" as a public figure to clue us in on their beliefs.

None of them realize that, in the society they worship, the first anti-government word out of their mouth would also be their last. They would be taken out back and shot, or publicly beheaded.

Sean Penn ... Venezuela ... dang, I wish he'd spoken out against Hugo Chavez. Then we would have seen some real running home to Mommy. (Lady Liberty)

Answer 8

I like that I am free to disagree with conservatives.Which I do often.I like that an opinion is not required to be handed to me and that I can form my own.Something that many conservatives don't take advantage of.I like my country.No, I love it.I just don't like what some Americans are trying to do to it.That doesn't make me a communist or anti-American.That makes me a patriot.

Answer 9

sure... the freedoms protected by the constitution.... the fact that we are a generous nation... the things we have done for the poor in America and all around the world...

the fact that we can go from being nobody to somebody...

and most liberals only want to continue to make sure these things stay the same and/or improve...

Answer 10

I love that I have freedom of speech. I love and know that as a citizen of the US, it is my duty to speak up when I see an injustice. I love the fact that you have the right to disagree with me.