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Why I Am a Liberal (Not trolling - Jist food for thought)
useless knowledge ^ | Warren C. Norwood

Posted on 02/18/2005 2:52:25 PM PST by loe joe

Some of my friends, family members, and co-workers wonder how I could be a political liberal in the midst of this new swell of conservatism the United States. The answers to that are all too simple.

I am a liberal because the system originated by liberals called Social Security has made my parents' retirement more possible and comfortable than it would otherwise have been.

I am a liberal because the system originated by liberals called Medicare paid for my mother to have two knees and a hip replaced at a cost that otherwise could not have been born by all of her children together.

I am a liberal because Medicare paid for my father's operation to remove a cancerous kidney at a cost that would otherwise certainly have forced my parents to liquidate their assets.

I am a liberal because that system originated by liberals called WIC gives my daughter food stamps for cheese and milk and other necessities she needs to feed her children.

I am a liberal because that system demanded by liberals called company-paid employee medical insurance helps pay doctor bills for me and my wife and my daughter and son-in-law and grandchildren and sister and most of my other close relatives.

I am a liberal because the idea of autonomy of the individual is a liberal idea.

I am a liberal because the idea of political liberty is a liberal idea.

I am a liberal because government by the consent of the governed is a liberal idea.

I am a liberal because the Bill of Rights is a set of liberal ideas which protect us all. Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of worship, freedom of the press, due process of law, freedom from torture, the right to face our accusers, the writ of habeas corpus, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure are all liberal ideas. Most people in the world do not have those rights.

I am a liberal because those liberal ideas in our Constitution give us control of our representatives from the school board to the Senate and President of the United States, give us the liberal idea of checks and balances, and the liberal idea of no taxation without representation.

I am a liberal because the idea of public education is a liberal idea.

I am a liberal because the idea of a five day work week is a liberal idea.

I am a liberal because the idea of a strong, well funded and disciplined military under civilian control is a liberal idea, as is the notion of Veteran's benefits and military retirement.

I am a liberal because the Geneva Conventions are a liberal idea. The conventions protect American prisoners and all prisoners of signees from torture and abuse.

I am a liberal because the idea of the public maintenance of roads is a liberal idea.

I am a liberal because civil rights, children's rights, women's rights, and labor rights, are all liberal ideas.

I am a liberal because almost all the progressive ideas of the last four centuries have been liberal ideas resisted by the conservatives of their times. Those liberal ideas make this a better place to live for me, my family, my friends, my community, my country, and my world.

I ask people who insist on repudiating liberalism to please check off the liberal ideas above they are ready to do without.


TOPICS: Philosophy
KEYWORDS: gimme; iloveche; inbeforethezot; kittychow; mentalillness; newbie; roadapples; troll; wantsfreestuff; whiner; willworkforjist; zot
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To: loe joe
Hey, Joe nice essay in 'splaining liberals ideas. To me all that translates to freeloaders and societal parasites, period.
461 posted on 02/18/2005 7:37:11 PM PST by danmar ("No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person." Karl Hess)
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To: mastercylinder

these guys are my friends


462 posted on 02/18/2005 7:37:51 PM PST by mastercylinder (stupidity is the disease and the cure is knowledge)
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To: Publius Scipio

That was my thought. This idot is all about welfare and having someone pay for his way.

What a joke.


463 posted on 02/18/2005 7:42:27 PM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton Jr.)
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To: LauraleeBraswell

"NO YOU ARE A CONSERVATIVE. You want to conserve a system that no longer works.

I'm a liberal, I want to change it."

GREAT perspective!

MEGADITTO 4U!


464 posted on 02/18/2005 7:58:11 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
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To: EarlyRiser

I worked 3 jobs – just so I did not have to take the “free handouts,” that reduced my freedoms and made me feel worthless, pitiful, frightened, and unproductive.


I AM PROUD OF YOU, FELLOW AMERICAN. THOU HAST DONE WELL.

Would that all others knew the freedom of being self-supporting. There would be a lot less need for "self-esteem" books....


465 posted on 02/18/2005 8:33:06 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
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To: Blurblogger

Well, thank you very much. I didn't think anyone would read my entire comment. But I just had to tell that Liberal how "sorry" his lifestyle is caught up in dependency. Glad to meet you here.


466 posted on 02/18/2005 9:10:17 PM PST by EarlyRiser
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To: BibChr

You got the first hit this time. Congrats!


467 posted on 02/18/2005 9:24:59 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Another Thought
Let me guess: Are you by any chance a public school teacher?
I am, and I'm not a liberal.
468 posted on 02/19/2005 5:43:50 AM PST by Clara Lou (Hillary Clinton: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: loe joe
"I am a liberal because I'm worthless, can't do a damn thing on my own! I count on the government to give me other people money for all my needs, the needs of my children and the needs of my parents!"

"I'm a liberal because I'm a worthless POS!"

469 posted on 02/19/2005 5:48:56 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: loe joe

Liberal=Leech
The family and the church used to take care of the legitimate needs of society and would tell the free-loaders to get a job.
Government just mails out checks with money confiscated by threats from the paychecks of others...kind of like robbery, actually. Who could possibly read this drivel and have any respect for a Liberal?


470 posted on 02/19/2005 5:56:00 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: SlowBoat407
Hil Guvera!

BWAHAHAHAHA!

(er hili-guava)

471 posted on 02/19/2005 5:57:49 AM PST by xcamel (Deep Red, stuck in a "bleu" state.)
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To: loe joe
I am a liberal because the idea of public education is a liberal idea.

And it's turned into another nightmare!

"Public" education works overtime to turn the majority of children into mind-numbed robots who have developed a favorable outlook on perversion, but are incapable of reading.

472 posted on 02/19/2005 6:00:16 AM PST by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal Today)
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To: loe joe
I am a liberal because my very excellent teachers taught me to be liberal.

Besides, liberals are smarter than everyone else and I desperately want to be smarter than everyone else, even if half the stuff I say is stupid.
473 posted on 02/19/2005 6:24:33 AM PST by Beckwith (I know Churchill, and Ward Churchill is no Churchill . . . he ain't no Indian either . . .)
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To: loe joe

Wasn't "joe joe" the term the Beatles used to refer to a certain anatomical part of groupies.

Also a synonym for cat.


474 posted on 02/19/2005 6:26:45 AM PST by Beckwith (I know Churchill, and Ward Churchill is no Churchill . . . he ain't no Indian either . . .)
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To: loe joe
IT's nice that your parents have MY money so they can retire. See, my wife paid over $150,000 into SS over the course of her life and when she died at age 34....I got $165 back.
THIS IS THE REALITY OF YOUR LIBERAL IDEA
475 posted on 02/19/2005 6:33:49 AM PST by KeepUSfree (WOSD = fascism pure and simple.)
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To: KeepUSfree

THAT is enough to make one puke!!


476 posted on 02/19/2005 10:37:41 AM PST by international american (Tagline now fireproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: mastercylinder


Nice :-)
477 posted on 02/19/2005 3:03:05 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: mhking; Sidebar Moderator; Brad's Gramma

Stop it. I mean it. My snorts have turned into snerts.

Egads, if someone could hear me now..........


478 posted on 02/19/2005 4:21:31 PM PST by JLO (Minnesota Nice)
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To: All
thanks anybody is free to use any pictures from my profile page
479 posted on 02/19/2005 4:34:11 PM PST by mastercylinder (stupidity is the disease and the cure is knowledge)
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To: mastercylinder

Why THANK you!!!!


480 posted on 02/19/2005 4:39:27 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (aitch tee tee pea colon 2 slashes dubya dubya dubya dot proud patriots dot org)
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