FReeper Homer J Simpson had an article from 1939 where the Nazi’s labeled over-eating as TREASON.
Same old, same old I guess
Thanks for the post...I will definitely stop calling them libs...I say call them what they are Socialists.
Sometimes this Examiner publication is a hoot. Does anybody know where it came from or who runs it? Is it related to the Washington Examiner where all the exiled National Review people seem to have gone? It seems to know where I live, I suppose by IP address.
They are authoritarians or statists and we are liberals in the historic sense.
However, through these friends (and unfortunately family too) I know some "liberals" who are more out there. They are universally intolerant, elitist, arrogant, close-minded thugs. You're right, "liberal" does not apply to them at all. They are socialist and fascist. If you dare try to engage them in thoughtful discourse, countering their emotion-based arguments with logic and facts, they quickly turn to personal attacks and derision. The far left are truly not nice people to be around.
I’ve been putting the word “liberal” in quotes for a long time now, because they are anything but “liberal”. They’re all nanny state, intolert, self-righteous fascist dictators.
The excrement is rapidly approaching the rotating blades of reality.
Gay men use more health dollars than any other group... but the MSM is quiet - oh so quiet about health problems with that group.
What the article is talking about isn't liberalism, which has its roots in libertarianism (that's why they carpool on so many syllables), and it's right on the money in saying that these activities that they talk about shouldn't be called liberalism. It's really talking about progressivisim. You know, the movement that got its start constitutionally banning alcohol. Those folks.
The far left in America is made up largely of liberal progressives. What the liberal side means is that they want you to be able to do whatever you want, and be whoever you want (gay, a black woman with a job, a transsexual atheist hooker) without any impediment by the government or society at large so long as it doesn't hurt other people.
That's where the progressive side comes in. Progressives look at the big picture consequences of little-picture actions. In small doses, this is a good thing. Progressives say that factories shouldn't be able to dump mercury into the river next to your house, because it hurts other people, and we shouldn't be able to defecate on the sidewalk because nobody wants to walk in other people's poop.
Modern progressivism has been extended even further. It is the modern progressive who argues that if you drink a lot of soda, you'll get fat, and then you'll have health problems, and then you're going to burden the hospital that other people go to, and that's why we should tax soda. Ditto cigarettes. Ditto anything that might be bad for you, really.
New tagline, thanks for the post FromLori!
Liberal = hater of freedom of choice to live a life that one desires to lead.
Scary that many of the people who vote for the liberals don’t understand that the people they would vote for will turn on the voters in a heartbeat.
Amen. I'm glad someone finally wrote it, and I'm glad some people here agree. Most of my views haven't changed much over the years, and at one point many of those viewpoints would've been called liberal. The definition of the word is what changed.
There are several other groups that rival these as objects of "liberal" hatred: white male heterosexuals, self-employed individuals (including professionals), real property owners, bankers, and "greedy" Wall Street executives, for example.