The two big problems with liberals are these: They push the idea that their way of living is good for everyone else, or they assume that some way that they don’t live is good for everyone else. Either way can get pretty insulting. For instance, I felt absolutely turned off at Obama’s statement on Moms at home, fact is that there are fathers at home in some cases, and the other one is that few people in America are as rich as the Obama’s are. For much of the U.S. population, a second working parents’ income will be eaten up by sending your children to daycare, something that the Obamas, with their greater income, aren’t concerned about. Second, there is the gun control idea, when your average liberal has armed bodyguards to accompany them. I doubt the regulations would apply to them getting rid of their bodyguards, or to them at all.
My usual answer to questions like that is:
Is the Pope Catholic?
However with the current Pope, I don’t think the answer is so clear.
Maybe we should change it to:
Is Michelle Obama ugly?
Yes.
Next question.
Now tell me, is this a trick question?
Liberalism is a mental disorder. Why should anyone expect it to be coherent?
When the onion skins of the Progressive movement are peeled down to the last layer, one finds dollar signs; they love the stuff and have no respect for what makes it. They just know they have to have it and lust after the printing presses and the power that coins it.
IMHO
It takes no intelligence to be a liberal since they operate solely on feelings.
What we are really seeing are the two parties merging into one “government” party with an imperial president ruling by decree.
It’s the natural end point for the total corruption in DC we are witnessing.
Oregon is, of course, one of the most liberal states in the union. I've heard the same thing about Vermont. Now that liberals have made it a thoroughly liberal state, everybody else keep out.
Yes, and they are morally bankrupt as well!
That’s not a question it is a FACT!
Not just intellectually but in every conceivable manner, liberalism is a deadly puss oozing poisonous infection on our Free Republic.
Liberalism, socialism and Islam will exist and flourish as long as there is evil.
The answer is as follows:
Liberalism has fully accepted postmodernist view that objective truth doesn’t exist, therefore lying and hypocrisy don’t really exist. So you can lie and you can contradict yourself to no end.
To top it all, liberalism embraces the existential view that life has no objective meaning. So nothing matters anyway.
Intellectual liberal that’s so funny it makes the ribs hurt.
No, what Liberals need is a Biblical view of "right" and "wrong" and Biblical "wisdom" and the courage and determination to act upon these truths.
But then, they would no longer be called "Liberals", would they?
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Anyway, if somebody takes your seat, you have to grab another one, even if it's not the one you want and you never saw yourself sitting there.
That may be what he means by saying parties are more about sociology than ideology. When one side moves one way, the other side tends to move in the opposite direction.
If you're a Democrat promoting de-regulation in the 1970s or 1980s and Republicans come along and back de-regulation in a major way, you'll back off.
Plus, sometimes policy trends go too far. What happened to the Republicans in the New Deal years isn't wholly different from what happened to Democrats in the Reagan era.
Hoover-era Republicans who backed efforts to build highways and dams and regulate radio and airlines backed off from big government when Roosevelt and the Democrats enthusiastically backed more thoroughgoing regulation and government control of industry.