I personally am not shocked. They really are a disgusting group of ideologues.
Welcome to reality
It is very sad, but living in the Seattle area, I am not terribly shocked. They have a statue of Lenin in Seattle.
To be fair, the name of the site is liberalforum.org. They are set up to be a forum for communists. If you want to debate these types, Yahoo groups would probably be a better place to start.
I am not the least bit shocked by what you saw there. Anyone who understands communism recognizes that it is very much entrenched these days in the democrat party. They just call themselves, "Progressive."
By the way, their are certain parts of the website where even conservatives are alloud to post their view points. However, when I registered, I registered under the name Bush4304. When the process was complete the website informed me that my membership was being reviewed by a administrater. I should note, that even in those forums that are supposabley open to all, I keep getting the same message, "Sorry, you do not have permission to reply to that topic".
Leave 'em alone.
We have freedonm of speech in this country and also freedom of association.
If they want to get together as like minded people that is OK.
Let's face it, we don't tolerate left wing bomb throwers here, so why should we criticize them if they make their own place.
So long as they are not plotting sedition we should let them be.
It's not point trying to reason with them, it's like trying to teach a pig to sing - it's a total waste of time and it annoys the hell out of the pig.
I regard people such as these as goose-stepping Leftists, first cousins to fascists, who have wrongly expropriated the term 'liberal'. The fact is, in the real world, liberal attitudes are associated with at least some practical constraints and can exist across the political spectrum. Somewhat analogous to the difference between having an open mind and an empty head.
You were shocked? I am shocked at that. Liberals are nothing more than nihilists. They realize that the only way for everyone to be equal is if everyone is dead. They resent everything positive in the world. Liberals hate the term "evil" because they know that it is the true description of them. Conservative/Liberal are meaningless terms that just cover up the true nature of the conflict: good vs evil. Good always wins in the end so keep up the fight.
There is no talking sense to these people. They have been fed at the table of socialism and have drank and ate heartily at it. Resurgitation is the only think that could help them but all we get from them is constant belching and backfiring, all with no substance.
There you will find liberals who are cream of the crop. Intelligent, witty, charming, gentleman like...
***snicker***
cool that you registered as Bush4304
I've been posting some on an art forum called wetcanvas.com
As you can imagine, alot of these artists consider themselves liberal.
However, I have found that, even so, many of them think that a liberal is a believer in individual freedom, etc.
In that case, however, there is no reason why a liberal would not vote for Bush, since, clearly, voting left, as liberals do, is certain to have an adverse effect on individual freedom.
OTOH, I've come to the conclusion that "liberals" don't really have any political principals at all, although leftists certainly do.
""Could you please explain what you mean by "democracy?" See, when most people say that, they really mean 'a capitalist system.' I would favor a Lenin-esque ideal in which the membership of a hierarchy of government positions are elected by the people. I think this would be more democratic. Communism is not a failure. The Soviet Union did not fall because it was communist, but because of the reintroduction of commercial interests by Gorbachev. It is, and always has been, private interests that lead/led to failure."
It sounds this person is defining what a REPUBLIC is, not what Communism is! And guess what...we are a republic already!
I've been dealing with a message board forum like what you described with favorable results--except that as I'm so outnumbered it is tiresome and I can be barraged with nonsense posts in a war of attrition. The site is based in the Netherlands...
Communism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Leftism, etc., is a significant and delusional disease that afflicts most people who are at a pathetic place in life...the rest have no excuses and are traitors to our Republic. I have very little compassion for their plight. The diseased should be given options of rehabilitation or be institutionalized. The others need to be tried for a conspiracy against America and dealt with accordingly.
What you found has become known as Subliberalism. Their ideology reminds me of Stalinism. The days of finding a true liberal to debate in a fair exchange is gone forever...
I disagree. That forum is not as bad as you made it out to be.
Hey I went to LiberalForum they have a reply to this post here.
http://liberalforum.org/liberalforum//index.php?showtopic=9456
Nice job! You got them running scared!!!!
LOL!!!!
http://liberalforum.org/liberalforum//index.php?showtopic=9456