To be a liberal...(from a lib forum)

a lib forum | 4/4/02 | a lib

[Savage Beast]

The contemporary "Liberal" movement in America has nothing to do with the word "liberal" meaning "free-thinking", "freedom loving", or "open-minded", and it has nothing to do with the noble tradition of liberalism related to that meaning.

Contemporary "Liberalism" is repressive, closed-minded, and contemptuous of freedom, liberty, and freedom of thought. It is a manifestation of decadence and represents the greatest single threat to liberty, the U.S., Western Civilization, and world peace and prosperity.

Contemporary "Liberals" seek power for its own sake. They seek repression, the silencing of dissident and differing opinions, the imposition of their own desires and paradigms upon everyone else. They praise "diversity" but struggle to suppress it.

Contemporary "Liberalism" is to be condemned and resisted.

Contemporary "Liberals" have betrayed liberalism and have much to be ashamed of.

Furthermore, those who see everything as "Liberal" or "Conservative" also tend to see everything as "black" or "white".

I personally am neither "Liberal" nor "Conservative".

I am definitely not a part of or a party to the contemporary "Liberal" movement!

And I am definitely liberal--in the true and correct meaning of the word.

[MarkL]

Well, liberals have managed to run the Kansas City school district into the ground... They've managed to destroy public education in the US... Yup, they're the "keepers of knowledge!"

Mark

[f.Christian]

morphing-evolution rhetoric/bias...

do not know science/conservatism from liberal delusian--fantasy/SPIN!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Sir Isaac Newton actually harbored
a number of esoteric apocalyptic religious
ideas which most contemporary liberals reject.
Liberalism has actually metamorphosed over the
years into a form of statist totalitarian socialism
which actually makes it a regressive obstacle
to genuine progress of any kind. Considering that
both Newton and Galileo are dead white western
males who embraced the model of human knowledge
rejected by postmodern multiculturalist deconstructionists
they seem odd poster boys for contemporary liberals.

[LibWhacker]

Then their was Newton who was simple discounted as a weirdo because nobody was inteligent enough to understand what he was saying.

Total BS. The author is an uneducated idiot. Nobody regarded Newton as a weirdo. He was recognized as a genius early in his life (IIRC, only his father appeared to have doubts) and excelled at the university.

But hey, maybe we are stupid for not whipping our women and driving them out into the fields to work all day.

[redhead]

Masterful!!

[Oztrich Boy]

Absolutely Savage. I am still proud to be liberal, and I refuse to condone the theft of the word by the hive-mind.

The third, and most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government, is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
Every function superadded to those already exercised by the government, causes its influence over hopes and fears to be more widely diffused, and converts, more and more, the active and ambitious part of the public into hangers-on of the government, or of some party which aims at becoming the government.
J S Mill, a liberal back in the days when the word meant what it said.

(and the real scary thing: I think I actually recognize the personal style of the "liberal" poster.)

[Savage Beast]

Excellent, O.B. Extremely well said.

"I am still proud to be liberal, and I refuse to condone the theft of the word by the hive-mind."

--Oztrich Boy

Excellent.

[Savage Beast]

I agree with you, R. There are two kinds of Liberals: scoundrels and fools. The scoundrels are almost always the leaders, but occasionally someone like Jimmy Carter gets into a leadership position. The majority of Liberals out there are mind-numbed robots.