Liberal Defined...as in typical DU member
Posted on 03/21/2005 9:59:18 AM PST by tryon1ja
To the editor:
The term "liberal" has been used to defien the "progressive" wing of the Democratic Party. What does the term actually stand for? Her is my definition.
A "liberal" is:
One who believes that it is acceptable to murder unborn children and yet wants to save the lives of convicted serial killers and rapists on death row.
One who is in favor of affirmative action, but vehemently opposed the nomination of a black American to the Supreme Court of the United States.
One who alleges he or she is in avor of equal rights for women, but denigrates the career and accomplishments of Securetary of State Dr. Condoleeza Rice.
One who severely criticized the conduct of our government in protecting us from 9/11, but at the same time opposes the efforts of our government to prevent future acts of terrorism by opposing the Patriot Act.
One who is in favor of diversity but wants only liberal professors and teachers hired at our colleges and universities.
One who professes support for our troops but who trumpets every mis-deed of a small group of soldiers and totally ignores the heroic and helping acts of the overwhelming majority of the almost 150,000 soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan in an effort to demoralize the troops.
One who wanted to delay the vote in Iraq because the country was too unstable for such an important democratic practice, but now claims that the successful election is insignificant and meaningless.
One who believes that Al Jazeera, the Arab fundamentalist TV network, reports the news more accurately and is less biased than Fox News.
One who says he or she endorses free speech but makes sure that on our university campuses only politically correct utterances are allowed.
One who argues that Christian fundamentalist are worse than Arab fundamentalists.
One who complains about unemployment while at the same time is objecting to industrial development in this country because of pollution.
One who decries the price of gasoline and our trade deficit but at the same time opposes drilling for oil in federal lands.
I am sure there are more examples that could be listed, but I believe that the foregoing gives you an idea. The good news for Republicans is that liberals, such as Howard Dean, are about to assume the organizational helm of the Democratic Party. It can only be hoped that Mr. Dean will rely on the likes of Sen. Kennedy, Boxer, Levin and Clinton to formulate the Democratic platform, for that will assure a Republican victory.
You forgot the most important one:
A Liberal is someone who says they want to do good with other people's money. (Some truly believe this, others simply say so in order to gain power.)
Simply put,
A liberal is a person who's just confused -- because he can't discriminate one thing from anything else.
Is there a link to this? I'd like to share it with some of my liberal friends.
You have it closest, IMO, in stating that they're confused. While I agree that liberals tend to support all those things listed in the essay, I think most of them don't have any guiding principles at all, how else could they endlessly support contradictory positions?
And if they didn't have a nice sounding buzz word like "liberal" to hide behind, but instead had to call themselves what they really are, supporters of socialism, then it might be less popular to be a "liberal." There's a basic dishonesty in the language which most are unaware of, I think.
A liberal wants to "tax the rich" yet hide their tax returns on their own riches.
A liberal believes starvation and dehydration are "painless" and "dignified" - yet screams foul in the case of Abu Graib, death row felons, or any terrorist prisoners.
A liberal has designer babies that are lovingly chronicled in ultrasound images - but only the ones didn't abort.
While I agree with what you wrote, my observation is that the hallmark of Liberals is HYPOCRISY.
A great example is Howard Dean: While outwardly declaring that Blacks need affirmative action, he hires none.
Opposition is always the "religious right", but they can never be called by their true description - "liberal left" without crying foul.
"Liberal: A power-worshipper without power."
-George Orwell
A liberal is someone who prizes intellectualism yet bases his opinions on emotion.
A liberal is also someone who wants all my money because they think that they can make more intelligent decisions with it than I will.
A liberal hires a poor woman as a surrogate mom to carry the designer baby to term, so mom's figure isn't "messed up." Once born, the baby is raised by nannies and other servants so the liberal mom and dad don't get their manicured hands dirty changing diapers, and so they can be free to "self-actualize."
Here is an even easier definition: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3314246
Liberal Defined...as in typical DU member
The difference between a liberal and a conservative:
A conservative bases his politics on his morals
A liberal bases his morals on his politics...Hence the ends always justifies the means
DU administrator "Skinner" returns to his regular "day job" of licking the city's gutters clean of homeless wino vomit, dog feces, crack addict urine, discarded prostitute condoms and AIDs-tained syringes, while attempting to gain a tan on his grotesque flabby body!
Most "liberals" don't come to their conclusions on their own. Every morning, the New York Times or Washington Post tells them what to think and what to say. As a liberal, all one has to do is repeat the words (and send them in as letters to the editor of your local paper) -- and even plagiarize them as though they are one's own. It doesn't matter that it doesn't make any sense -- as long as they keep repeating them, because repetition will give them a ring of familiarity, if not truth. Tomorrow, the next demagogue will give them their marching orders. All they have to do is obey the new mantra of the day -- and stick together because they are nothing if they try to stand alone, as individuals.
They never need to have original ideas; all they have to do is be against what some thoughtful person is for. That makes them just as important.
I see it that way too. The media never stops hammering in the leftist point of view, and the sheep take it as gospel, never realizing there is an agenda, and not believing it if you tell them. I guess it's called conditioning. No surprise that elements of socialism are now seen as American tradition.
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