Is this the liberal view of the Declaration of Independence?

Question

Is this the liberal view of the Declaration of Independence?

In the view of those who subscribe to the liberal interpretation of history, the philosophy of the Declaration is antiquated. According to the liberal interpretation, all men are created equal, except for blacks, Native Americans, Alaskan natives, Hispanics, and Asian and Pacific Islanders, who are racially challenged and must be classed apart from everyone else. (Native Hawaiians will be added to the list if the Akaka Bill becomes law.) All are entitled to life, except for those whose hearts beat in the womb; to liberty, except for those who require the supervision of the nanny state; to the fruits of their industry, except for those who have made a certain amount of money and are obligated to hand a disproportionate chunk of it over to the government each year.

Answer 1

So it is Repbulicans who are generous to poor black children? Wow! That's news. I will alert the media. So it is Repbulicans who vote to help poor kids on Indian Reservations? That's news too? More media to be alerted!

Entitled to life under Repbulican terms they would die of cancer from lack of decent health care. Is that your definition of happiness?

Entitled to liberty under Republicans means wire taps without warrents. A holier than thou attitude by Republicans telling everyone else how to live yet not live that way themselves is liberty for who?

Persuit of happiness really means to be able to live a good, honest, comfortable life; free from want of food, shelter and basics of American life. The heartless conservatives want that for themselves and more but not for someone else.

Sons and daughters sent to an unnecessary war predicated on lies is hardly what one could call advocating life. Allowing children to die because their parents aren't able to afford medical insurance or have been dropped because greedy insurance companies don't want to pay is hardly what one could call advocating life.

If we look at the declaration of independance we can read much into it. We can apply it in different ways to today's world.

Answer 2

There is an apparent conflict of interests between the fetus' right to life and the mother's right to liberty/pursuit of happiness. The questions, then, are: Is the fetus a human being with the right to life? If so, does that right trump the mother's right to do what she wants with her body? Personally, I think the answer to both questions is yes except in certain cases (rape, mother's health), but to say that people who are pro-choice don't care about the Declaration of Independence is a gross oversimplification of the issue. This is coming from someone who is generally pretty liberal, by the way. Not all liberals agree with every single liberal position.

Answer 3

All liberals that I know are quite happy with our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution (with it's amendments) and the purpose they've served just as they're written. It's worked well for over 200 years which is more than I can say for the 12 years that conservatives had total control of the government (1994 thru 2006).

Answer 4

It was always a terrorist wish list, operating more effectively as poetry than anything else. I tried reading the preamble once, but I just zoned out - it represents historical reality about as closely as the film "Pearl Harbour". If you like your history reconstructed, that's your lookout, but when you start messing with other people's you just end up looking silly. U110 was captured on 9th May 1941, and you just couldn't have an American character called Captain Addison Joe Baker-Cresswell DSO RN.

Deconstructing the interpretation you posted leads me to believe you to be a conservative. "All are entitled to life, except for those whose hearts beat in the womb". Oh, please! Don't point that rhetoric at me; it's loaded and may go off.

Unless you learn to dissemble, and try a little bit harder to disguise your agenda, they won't let you conduct a third consecutive coup d'etat next year.

Answer 5

That sounds about right. the ones that disagrees with it is either a brainwashed by Democrats or have not paid attention when the Democrats had control of the house and senate for forty years. Democrats do things wrong and then blame the Republicans for it.

Answer 6

No, that is not what I believe. I believe all people of all races are equal under the law.

Answer 7

Sorry to see you don't like the results of eleven years of a republican congress mixed in with six years of complete control of government by republicans. You reap what you sow. One other thing, Lincoln didn't believe blacks were equal to whites and obviously those who wrote those words while owning slaves didn't believe them either.

Answer 8

sounds about right, thank the ACLU for their support in watering down the Constitution meant for citizens of the USA, but has been used to get 'civil rights' for non-citizens and criminals due the the liberal courts interpretation of this honored but assaulted document.

Answer 9

They just want to do away with it completely and use the updated little red book of bill / hillary Inc.

Answer 10

No, I think libs are more interested in making love not war; while taking LSD and spreading STD's and wearing John Lennon glasses. Hugging trees, wearing sandals with socks, and in general being the outcast, pot-smoking weirdo's of society. Libs are people with entitlement mentality issues; the government always owes them something because they can not do for themselves. So the rest of us have to suffer and listen to them complain...constantly.