Posted on 02/23/2010 4:10:06 AM PST by look.a.liberal
No kidding. I was just checking weather, email and the web on the iPhone. And I just woke up.
Need coffee.
I am an academic also. Specifically, I am an academic economist. And I am conservative. I believe in the free market and believe the role of the government should be limited. In particular, I believe that minimum wage laws cause unemployment (especially among the particular class of people the laws are intended to help). I believe that taxation hampers business, regulation and taxation leads to inefficiency and free trade is desirable.
The normative questions, specifically about equity issues, are often used to pit classes against each other, even though by definition there does not exist answers.
I am tired to hear people in academics talk about economic issues when they are trained in other areas. Specifically, professors in education, sociology, and many other areas believe that exposure to Marx is equivalent to sound economic theory. I believe the focus on diversity in the university ignores diversity of thought, with an unhealth (nearly unanimous) tilt towards liberalism.
I am tired with the academic class and the media portraying Palin as ignorant, the tea partiers as less intelligent, even though many top economists share their view. There is a reason that economics tends to have the highest percentage of conservatives in academics.
IBTZ
I read very carefully. You are not much of a liberal. As academics go, you are practically a right-wingnut. You agree with us far too much. When ObamaCare blows up in our faces, you’ll be right at home here.
Correct you on one thing:
“If abortion is murder, then there is no question that it should be banned at the federal level.”
That would only be true if they were performed at post offices, military installations, national parks and other federal properties. Otherwise, the crime of murder is a state issue.
Keep thinking. I’d say that you’re ‘getting there.’
After years of seeing only the liberal side of arguements I was electrified when I first heard William F Buckley and recognized my political center of gravity. But those shows were close to actual debates with a lot of give and take and some points of mutual agreement. But ever since 'Crossfire', political debate as resembled WWI trench warfare where trying to cross 'no-mans-land' will get you shot.
Political debate has become too defensive where even friends and family find it hard to agree to disagree.
Sorry, I will never be able to support 0bama and the vast majority of liberals because they are mentally ill and unstable. Every liberal I know is on some type of doctor prescribed medication just so their brains can function semi-normally each day.
If only that were entirely true :-(
One more thing, the modern liberal tries to drive wedges between differences, in religion, sex, race, and whatever else they can find because this is how they destroy this great country from within. Perhaps you need to find a new word to define yourself rather than liberal. Like gay liberal has taken on a new conontation than its original meaning. So unless you want to be thrown in with all of those who really do wish to destroy this country use your acedamia to invent that new word that better defines you.
I don't think you know what you believe.
If abortion is just an "operation", it's the only operation in which success is defined by the death of a human being.
And you call that "choice"? The right to choose to kill another person on the basis of personal convenience? If it is murder to kill a child 5 minutes after birth, why isn't it murder to kill that same child 5 minutes before birth?
You liberals are hypocrites, first and foremost.
You do have a right to believe this. You also have a right to be an idiot; but just having a right is different from making it right. You are wrong.
Actually, you lost me at "I am a Liberal." Liberal is a mental disorder. You are sick, but admitting your illness is a step in the right direction. I don't care to hear your liberal bullsh*t. We get enough of that from your kommie "Dear Reader," the ass-clown stinking up our White House, and our TV sets every narcissistically manic damn day.
We come here to get away from your ignorant puke. Please go to Hell, and leave America where you found her. You are no more an American patriot than was Stalin. You want socialism and daily gummint ass-reamings, move to France or Haiti. I hear it's real nice this time of year.
;-/
I am a conservative:
1) Pro-life, (at conception)
2) Pro-second amendment, (I carry a Ruger .357)
3) Pro-traditional family, (one man, one woman).
4) Pro-choice in schooling (we home-school our daughter, but I volunteer in Public Schools to help kids stuck in failing schools by a currupt Teachers Union)
5) Support hunting (but rescue abandoned animals)
6) Bible-carrying, Born-again Christian (but still love to listen to Hendrix)
I'm a typical conservative, but I'm not a typical conservative - don't really think any of us can be put "in a box".
I think you'll find the exchanges here interesting (and infuriating, and humorous, and curious, and....)
Academia is a major problem in America... and one day we will purge the communists and islamist loving anarchists from our education system.
You are a libertarian... that is one notch up from a drooler like schmucky schumer or henry waxman... try to seek help and it would not hurt to allow GOD into your life... your ideologies are not the center of the Universe... and neither are you.
You guys certainly ascribe deity like powers to you bullsh!t profession. Personally... I'd like to put you all against the wall... but then I believe in the Constitution... and I actually understand the men that wrote it. They would have found your kind a little to "red" for their liking. Have any synapses fired in that septic pool of a brain of yours yet?
LLS
As an academic you must also be aware that presentation and gloss is very often not indicative of substance. I have taken great issue with the characterization of Bush as an ‘anti-intellectual idiot’, and have never bought into the characterization of Obama as ‘brilliant’ and intellectual. The liberal establishment (e.g. certain media outlets, academia, etc.) have, however, perpetuated this false dichotomy. That, to me, is very offensive, and actually outright anti-intellectual. It is very difficult to have a meaningful dialogue when one side has already decided it is intellectually superior.
For the record, IMHO the act of characterizing oneself as ‘intellectual’ is generally a marker of not being so in reality. That was a general comment not directed at you in any way.
Again, thanks for starting this dialogue.
An academic what?
What a curious way to describe one's self.
Danged straight! I’m with you FRiend!
LLS
You are not a liberal!
Very good read. I am a firm believer in a strong 2 party political system; however, we have a very long way yo go in this country. Hopefully the Tea Party and the American people at the ‘grass root’ level will bring about the change we need
He might be an OPEN BORDERS SYMPATHIZER!
ALL ILLEGALS ALL THE TIME!
Welcome to FR. I do hope you keep lurking even if your account gets banned. Reagan was a democrat. So were my parents. Education is key. :)
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