This country was built by Liberals....any one disagree?

Question

Why is it that there are so many people in America that hate Liberals?

Is it because of FOX and other news/mock-news out lets?

Is it because they are not educated about what the Founding Fathers wanted?

Liberal is NOT a dirty word, it cannot be, it stands for everything our Founders wanted;

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Here is what a Liberal is.

"....if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~ John F. Kennedy

Answer 1

not only were they liberals...they were radical, revolutionary liberals....Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.-Ben Franklin....Now think of the Patriot act...the very definition of giving up liberty for safety.

Answer 2

Yes! And John F. Kennedy was a very rich man from a very wealthy family who never had to worry about his education, housing, health, or jobs. His views might very well be skewed. There is no argument as to what is right, the argument is the rights have to be earned.The rights are not entitlements as many liberals believe. When all men put forth their very best regardless how small a contribution to the whole , Then we may buy the " all men are created equal" theory.

Answer 3

This country was founded on individualism and personal responsibility. The very essence of liberalism, or at least modern liberalism, is the elimination of personal responsibility.

Further, it's very hard to imagine any of the founding fathers of this country cheering for our enemies, making excuses for murderers and thieves, creating an entire subset of the population with a lifelong dependance on public assistance.. or the elimination of god from all aspects of public ( and as many aspects of private ) life as possible.

No.. this country certainly was not founded by liberals.

Answer 4

Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. Different forms of liberalism may propose very different policies, but they are generally united by their support for a number of principles, including extensive freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market or mixed economy, and a transparent system of government.[2]

The above is quoted form Wickepedia. Given this definition we have no liberals in America. Democrats certainly don't espouse these characteristics.

Answer 5

Americans do not seem to appreciate their democracy they have.

The loosing side is forever indirectly calling the majority of the voters idiots. They are calling the opposition names and seem to be blind to the faults of their own leaders.

It would serve America and the rest of the world better if Americans can learn to accept the chosen administration and rather fight issues than persons.

Answer 6

The founders stood for something. Today's liberals do not. Ask today's liberal something and then ask that same something later and you will get two different answers. This country was built and formed when we were all Americans. Not so today. Your expressed definition of a liberal is very outdated. Liberals do not look ahead, they look at self, they do not welcome new ideas, they have none, they care not about people, only their votes. I fear what liberals will give away.

Answer 7

You are slightly incorrect. Your definition of a Liberal is correct, but this country was built on Libertarianism. Which is where the word "Liberal" is derived from.

Answer 8

"I love America... I love and enjoy the 40 hour work week and safe work environment but I hate the unions that worked tirelessly to get that. I love the food labeling here so that I know what is there in what I eat but I hate that god-damn liberal that forced corporation to do that."

Somehow the conservatives think that the good things here in America is brought out by capitalism, free economy and Regan! Probably it is because of illiteracy.

Answer 9

Indeed, you are correct. Liberals are responsible for a better quality of life for the American middle class. Many people are simply confused about politics. They fail to understand who the players are and what they truly represent. The ruling-elite want it that way and work dilligently to insure this confusion.

The essence of the political left is labor. The
right-wing is the rentier (those who make their living
off of rents, royalties, bond interest and dividend
payments). Those terms and definitions came out of the
era of the French Revolution. This can be easily
understood as the capitalist (right-wing) gets richer
and richer when the workers (left-wing) toil harder
and harder for less and less.

The essence of the right-wing is the wealthy-elite and
this wealthy-elite has a significant problem in any
type of democratic society. That problem is that they
are a tiny, tiny minority. They reconcile this problem
by confusing a portion of the working class left and
then convincing those confused members to vote against
their own best interests. I like to refer to these
confused people as Archie Bunkers. Archie Bunker was a
flag-waving, right-wing Republican who was getting his
brains beat in by right-wing capitalism.

The Republican Party is hardly a party of decency.
Bush is the most prolific killer in our generation.
Bush, Limbaugh and other highly visible right-wingers
have a history of drug and alcohol abuse. Giuliani and
others have severe "family-values" issues. And
certainly, you must have noticed all of the gay sex
scandals in the Republican Party. In fact, those kinds
of sex scandals are not a new occurrence. They go back
decades. Look up the Franklin Sex Scandal and you'll
find that it goes all the way to the Reagan/Bush White
House.

The right-wing only embraces select social issues when
they can be used to split the left. Reagan and Bush
were advocates of abortion early in their political
careers. Reagan promoted one of the friendliest
abortion bills in the nation when he was governor of
California. The feeling among the right-wing at that
time was that they wanted to get women off of the
welfare rolls and they believed that abortion helped
to accomplish that desire. They only became
anti-abortion when they realized that it could be used
to split the left.

There are no right-wing governments anywhere in the
world that promote citizen ownership of guns. The
right-wing governments see an armed citizenry as a
threat to their own dominance of society. If the
public here were to become revolutionary-minded, one
would quickly see the right-wing clamp down on public
ownership of guns.

The right-wing has never promoted any true
life-affirming policies. In fact, it was the
right-wing that fought tooth and nail against those
who sought to outlaw child labor in this country. It
was the right-wing that fought tooth and nail against
those seeking to form labor unions. It was the
right-wing that fought tooth and nail against the 8
hour work day. It was the right-wing that fought tooth
and nail against minimum wage laws. It was the
right-wing that fought tooth and nail against women
suffrage. It was the right-wing that fought tooth and
nail against civil rights. These were all liberal
initiatives that were only won after tremendous
struggle against the political right-wing. In fact,
ALL life-affirming policies that have ever been passed
were advanced by the political left.

Liberals are those members of society who embrace
capitalism (which is the essence of what separates
them from socialists) but also believe in fair wages,
environmental protection laws, civil rights laws,
work-place safety laws, regulation of industry and so
on. Since a liberal, by definition, is tolerant, they
can't simply embrace and abandon social issues on a
whim like the right-wing has done. Liberals embrace a
live and let live philosophy that right-wing
politicians are able to take advantage of in their
effort to confuse the less political savvy members of
the underclass.

Socialists believe that capitalism is completely
incompatible with a decent society. The great Albert
Einstein explains why in his essay "Why Socialism."
Here's the link:

http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einst.ht...

" . . . nowhere have we really overcome what Thorstein
Veblen called "the predatory phase" of human
development. . . . the real purpose of socialism is
precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory
phase of human development." -- Albert Einstein

Answer 10

i couldnt DISAGREE MORE. todays pelosi/reid regime comrade liberal bears no resemblance whatsoever to the one of long ago. this country was not built by failed social welfare schems and confiscatory taxation as the regime embraces today. todays liberal mocks the heritage of this country by endorsing the name but NOT the ideals of its forefathers. the answer to your question is i DISAGREE TOTALLY