I shouldn't have to deal with liberal bashing, at least not without having a fair response...... I consider myself liberal, not in a party sense, but in a belief sense. So that offended me.
I find this interesting, because I believe you have a misunderstanding of exactly what "Liberalism" entails. So to educate you and others that may be ignorant of WHAT a Liberal is, I present the actual definition from the Free Dictionary:
Liberal
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liberal - definition of liberal by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
liberal [ˈlɪbərəl ˈlɪbrəl]
adj
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) relating to or having social and political views that favour progress and reform
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) relating to or having policies or views advocating individual freedom
3. giving and generous in temperament or behaviour
4. tolerant of other people
5. abundant; lavish a liberal helping of cream
6. not strict; free a liberal translation
7. (Social Science / Education) of or relating to an education that aims to develop general cultural interests and intellectual ability
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who has liberal ideas or opinions
[from Latin līberālis of freedom, from līber free]
liberally adv
a. Tending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor.
b. Generous in amount; ample: a liberal serving of potatoes.
3. Not strict or literal; loose or approximate: a liberal translation.
4. Of, relating to, or based on the traditional arts and sciences of a college or university curriculum: a liberal education.
5.
a. Archaic Permissible or appropriate for a person of free birth; befitting a lady or gentleman.
b. Obsolete Morally unrestrained; licentious.
n.
1. A person with liberal ideas or opinions.
2. Liberal A member of a Liberal political party.
You regaled us with your list of things you believe in:
-guns
-Closing and hanging the federal reserve owners in times square
-Ending the illegal income tax
-legalizing all drugs
-abortion
-banning all religions
-freedom from oppressive laws
-free health care for all CITIZENS
-free college for all CITIZENS
-closing the borders and all immigration until we get rid of all the illegals
-rich paying the most taxes
-way more laws on corporations and financial company's
-fines and sanctions on american companies that send jobs overseas
You seem to be at odds with the Liberal Party, which you initially told us
"I consider myself liberal, not in a party sense". I really could not find any non-party Liberal sites, so instead I went to the current Liberal Party web site for an understanding of what you might be thinking. THEIR list of principles differs from yours:
LIBERAL PARTY Issues and Answers
The Liberal Party has helped make these principles the foundation for many of the national ideals and institutions which make our country so special:
◦ Separation of church and state resulting in unprecedented religious freedom and an insistence upon tolerance.
◦ An independent judiciary.
◦ Separation of what is public and what is private.
◦ Separation of governmental powers.
◦ Representative democracy.
◦ A public school system which once produced the best educated Americans in our time and helped make us the most powerful and influential nation-state in the history of the world.
Our achievements in our 'home state' of New York indicate our concern for the day to day needs of people. We are significantly responsible for:
• The protection of the middle class through first-ever rent control laws.
• The first consumer protection legislation in state history.
• A national pioneering effort in support of congressional reapportionment.
• Very strong civil rights platforms very early on in the movement.
• Proposed laws to foster democratic and progressive trade union practices.
• Very early support of National Health Insurance and social security benefits.
• The development of credit unions, farm cooperatives and consumer movements.
You told us that you believe in banning all religions, why?
You told us that you believe in the “rich” paying the most taxes, why?
Please answer with facts, NOT emotions. Here’s how I feel about Liberalism:
Liberalism is an extraordinarily deceptive, ruinous and cruel ideology. That's because liberalism comes, arms wide open, whispering sweet words of compassion and pity, even as it forcefully slams down a boot upon the neck of people it's "helping." It's bad enough to see people's lives ruined by those who make no pretense about their intentions, but to see human beings destroyed by those who claim to have only their best interests at heart...well, let's just say it's a hell of a thing.
What liberalism does to minorities: Liberalism falsely convinces minorities in America that they are widely hated and despised for their skin color. How terrible it must be to spend your days seeing racial slights that don't exist, feeling despised by people who don't give you a second thought, and expecting that you will be treated unfairly by people, most of whom think no more of your skin color than they do the color of the carpet they're standing on. Believing these lies leads to a sense of victimhood that liberalism offers to "fix" with more destructive solutions like Affirmative Action. How many white Americans have doubted the achievement of a black American because of Affirmative Action? How many black Americans have doubted their own worthiness because they thought they may have been given a helping hand because of their race? How many black college students who would have graduated with honors at UNC-Chapel Hill flunked out of Harvard because Affirmative Action got them into a college that was over their head? In the wildest dreams of the Ku Klux Klan, they could have never come up with an ideology as deviously destructive to minorities in America as liberalism.
What liberalism does to children: One of the great ironies of modern life is the constant liberal refrain of "do it for the children." That's true, not only because liberalism is directly responsible for the death of more than 40 million children via abortion, but because liberal policies have descended like a plague of locusts upon the inheritance that America's sons and daughters would have otherwise received. Generations after everyone who went to Woodstock is in the ground, Americans will still be paying off their spending. What better thing could we do for the children than to safeguard the country we grew up in so that they'll have an opportunity to live the American dream, too?
What liberalism does to Africa: Liberalism's smothering paternalism has arguably done considerably more damage to Africa than European colonialism. "The Western world has given Africa 'about a trillion dollars in aid in the past 50 years' and yet as a whole, the continent could be fairly said to have gone backwards over the last 10-15 years." Obviously our aid is doing little for Africa, but we can't stop, even if it would be better for them to learn to stand on their own two feet, because liberalism says it’s better to ruin millions of lives than to risk making liberals feel bad. If only liberalism similarly prioritized the lives of African children over those of song birds. In another great irony, it's conservatives who argue that DDT should be used in Africa to kill mosquitoes and wipe out malaria, while liberals are willing to watch millions die because they're afraid that to do otherwise -- might put a few birds at risk.
What liberalism has done to the American family: Oh, the intentions are always good...so liberalism says. They just don't want anyone to feel bad or be judged negatively. They want everyone to have a good time and they believe the government should be there to pick up the pieces if things don't go well. So, we get...
Welfare checks. Gay marriage. No fault divorce. The sexual revolution. Attacks on Christianity. Lauding hedonism and single mothers in Hollywood. "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
But, when inevitably divorce rates skyrocket, our prisons fill up with children who never had fathers living in the home, and our society starts to fray around the edges, no one wants to admit that liberalism is at the heart of the entire problem.
What liberalism does to the poor: What mother dreams that her child will grow up to be on food stamps? What decent father wants to see his son eating free breakfast at school? How can you care about a person and want to see him living in a government housing project, collecting welfare, and nursing a grudge against the people in our society who have succeeded in life, instead of trying to become a success himself?
Liberalism says its adherents should pat themselves on the back for their compassion because they're making it possible for people to live that way. How many men's pride have they stolen with that "compassion?" How many lives has that "compassion" helped mire in misery? How many people, who could have made good lives for themselves, in the end, became dependent on the government and chose lives of mediocrity? If someone views that as "compassion," then his moral compass is shattered.
A Great Dane and Doberman.... During the summer I drive 3 hours away to my cabin almost every weekend and find that I accumulate more things to pack my 4runner with and it made it tight for the dogs. My Doberman has passed now so it's just the Dane. Still a tight ride at times. Ended up buying a cargo trailer.
