How do I join the Liberal Party?

Question

I have gotten hundreds of little thumbs down signs and nastigrams for saying there are no liberal or conservative parties. So I must be wrong. There must be huge liberal and conservative parties. But try as I might I cannot find out how one joins them. Obviously everyone else in the country knows this "secret" so please tell me how I join the liberal party. Since I am accused of being a lib daily I should have the opportunity to vote for my liberal candidates.

Richard: If points had any real value I might worry about it. The purpose of this site is supposed to be to educate. Unfortunately "truthiness" carries allot more weight these days then truth. If one person goes out to prove me wrong and searches in vain long enough to realize there is no liberal party and therefore no organized liberal agenda then my points got more value then most do here. I know what liberalism and conservatism means but evidently 99% of our society doesn't

For those who follow up this post I am just letting you know I will leave this to a vote instead of choosing a best answer. Thank you to those who provided information even though the question was rhetorical. Information is always useful. A few final points to address a few comments here. We do join our political parties in the US. There are millions of registered Democrats, Republicans, and many registered members of other parties. Conservatism and Liberalism are not actually philosophies. At least not the way we use the words. Ideas or policies can be conservative or liberal. People usually are not. What people do is support or believe in some of these ideas or policies. Most of us support some from each side. Few of us support all from one side. I suppose those few could be called liberals or conservatives but for the rest of us the label is inaccurate. That was my point. The labeling is being used to divide us and it is well beyond ridiculous.

Answer 1

You are correct. They are just being bitter.

This is a talk web site not an actual fact-based thing.

Answer 2

If you are serious about joining a Liberal Party, then you would have to consider Green Peace or the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party has many many conservatives in it such as me but there are also a tremendous number of liberals such as Obama, Sen Clinton, Pres Clinton, Sen Kennedy, Rep Barney
Frank(yes, that guy), who for the most part are closet Communists. If you will study the Democratic Platform you will find(much to my dismay) that it is an extremely liberal, Atheistic, Racist, and immoral platform, not to mention murderous. But as far as most liberals are concerned they are more or less quite happy with it.
But to be sure on where you stand, you might want to take a look at other party platforms as well. You might be very surprised to find that you actually agree with some of them as well even though they are not liberal.
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Answer 3

If you're in NY State, you can join the Liberal Party there. Otherwise, if you're overseas, you might have a Liberal Party in your country. Most that I know of, however, are Liberal Democrat or Liberal This or Liberal That - not just Liberal.

People in the US don't "join" parties. You just vote and become active as you want to. Don't know about other countries.

Answer 4

Well,
Australia, Canada, Bangladesh, Kurdistan, the Philippines and the UK each have their own "Liberal Party"
http://www.liberal.org.au/
http://www.liberal.ca/
http://www.liberalbd.org/
http://www.lpok.org/
http://www.liberalparty.ph/
http://www.liberal.org.uk/

But I'm thinking that perhaps you're in the USA. If that's the case, I hope you stay here in the US and stand up for your beliefs here! Actually, there are some isolated instances of a "Liberal Party" in the US:
If you go to Yale
http://www.yale.edu/libs/
If you live in New York
http://www.liberalparty.org/
If you live in Minnesota
http://www.geocities.com/liberalpartymn/
If you're a Zionist
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Politics/GeneralZionists.html

As for being able to vote for those liberal candidates... harder than most realize, I think. An eye-opening glimpse of where the candidates fall on the political spectrum:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/usprimaries2007

You asked :-)

Answer 5

Do you live outside the US? We don't have a liberal party in the US. We have the Democratic, Republican, Peace and Freedom, Libertarian, American Independant, Socialist, and a few other minor parties in different parts of the country but no Liberal party.

Answer 6

we have a liberal party out back every friday night! yep, just me and a bunch of my fellow liberals...we get together, crack open a few cold ones, break out the guitars, and party till the moon is high...then we all hang by our heels from the trees and get some shut eye...of course, that beer has an effect, and since we're already hanging out, we just 'go' where we are, sometimes without even waking up-hence the term 'bedwetting liberal moonbats'...only liberal party with which i'm familiar

Answer 7

Republicans call Democrats "Liberals" as a slur to show their thinking is so far out from the conventional. They have used that word "Liberal" so much it has lost its negative connotation.

Its part of a political game to make your side win by obscuring the truth and attacking people whose views are oppossed to you in a non-substantive manner.

Answer 8

I'm not sure if this question was a terrible attempt to make some sort of point, or if you really are not aware, but Richard has the best answer to this question.

Answer 9

I don't think there is a party (in the US) called THE Liberal Party.

Liberalism itself is a philosophy.

Answer 10

Move to New York State. We have an official liberal party. I am not sure if any other states have one.

Answer 11

there's a liberal party in Canada and England...

the Democratic party seems to be the closest in the U.S.... but it sounds like you're suffering more from people trying to discredit you by yelling "liberal" at you... as if that magically makes a point...