What is wrong with being a liberal?

Question

rabid republicanism would have you believe ts evil because its evil, but why?

Under Republicanism the end of the USA domination economically is now in sight , the only question is will it be China, India or energy rich Russia

Answer 1

Nothings wrong with it, everyone starts somewhere. Eventually you grow out of it.

Answer 2

Liberalism is a mental disorder!

Answer 3

Lets see, who sold us to china, and gave tax breaks to companies outsourcing? OH THATS RIGHT CLINTON.

Under republicanism? no.

you Fail

Answer 4

Nothing is wrong with liberals anymore than anything is wrong with conservatives. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. The only wrong I see in American politics is the hypocrisy and intolerance that we are seeing today from everyone.

Answer 5

nothing. its only the republicans complaining about liberals

Answer 6

The problem with being a liberal, is that most prominent liberals have abandoned the term and let the conservatives define what a liberal is. All advances in mankinds history have come from liberal thinkers, yet you will see conservatives shout they are conservatives and liberals shy away from the label.  

So be proud of your liberalism.  And smile every time someone tries to use it as an insult.  

Answer 7

Nothing. In fact there is a lot right with it. Some of our greatest Presidents including Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy were liberals. Liberals gave us the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, Woman's Suffrage, and the Civil Rights Act. Liberals also brought about the recovery to the conservative caused Great Depression. You can thank liberals for the forty hour work week, child labor laws, worker safety, collective bargaining, and Social Security. Liberals also have helped us preserve our natural beauty and kept us with clean and healthy drinking water and air.

Answer 8

Nothing. However, all the government parties promise 'EVERYTHING' but never deliver.  

Answer 9

Today's liberal is not the liberal of yesterday . Today a liberal is a socialist or communist . An that to a republican , a true republican is evil .  

Answer 10

What is wrong with being a liberal?  I assume you are using the popular meaning of this word which is generally used in mainstream American media....

Everything is wrong with being liberal.  Being liberal means being socialist.  Socialism is a type of evil.  Wealth redistribution and an 'ends justifies the means' type of reasoning about law and the government and economics.

I don't support the Republicans either.  They are really about as bad as the Democrats.

I have been hearing about American's economic demise for my entire 30+ years on this earth and it hasn't happened yet.  Yes, it is true that we have many bad policies:  mainly warfare and welfare.

Don't get confused.  Just because the Republicans are largely idiots and often seem to be heading us in the wrong direction, that doesn't make the Democrats (liberals) the ones to take us in the right direction.

In fact, the direction we should be going can be found in another party altogether........

Answer 11

Republicans didn't cause the economic downturn. It all happens in cycles. Anyone who's taken even the most basic of macroeconomic courses can tell you that.

And there;s nothing wrong with being a liberal, except when it comes to their fiscal positions.

Modern-day liberals are proponents of redistributing wealth, increasing equality in income, and basically trying to lend a "hand up", all under the guise of 'fairness'.

Things are never as bad as liberals paint them to be.

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Ooooh, 6 thumbs down, I'm hurting on the inside.

Wyldfyr, you're correct in saying that many of the founding fathers were liberals, but any person of education will tell you that classical liberalism is very different than modern liberalism.

I'm close to a classic liberal (although I consider myself a conservative Libertarian), but modern liberalism is much, much different.

Only a fool would think that they're similar.

Answer 12

If the devil tells you it's evil to be a Christian, will you tell him where to go?  Same difference.  No difference.

Answer 13

Nothing by itself, It's just that Americans don't want liberal policies here.

Answer 14

I imagine everyone who would answer this question would have such a unique idea of what constitutes "liberalism" that it would be a rather nonsensical discussion.  

Answer 15

Nothing's wrong with it.

There's a lot worse to be in this life. . .  

Answer 16

There is nothing wrong with being a Liberal.  There is something very wrong about the lies that have been told about Liberals , by Conservatives just for political gain.  People like Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter and others like them are far more dangerous than any Liberal.

Answer 17

Nuttin'.

Answer 18

There is nothing wrong with being a Liberal.  It's your right as an American to think and say what you want.

Answer 19

Nothing is wrong as long as their is always conservatism to help keep a balance.  

Answer 20

Nothing.

But most people forget the answers to these questions?

1.What is our  government for?

2.How were the decisions of the founding fathers of the American government formulated, and why?

3.And to whom ought government--the American Government-- be responsible?

Republicans answer that government is for the rich, and the less government the better, so that the rich can again be the Robber Barons of the 1800.

Republicans have little sense of history, and have forgotten that the founding fathers wanted a distinct exec. judicial, and bicameral legislative house.  And as well, they have forgotten that this is a nation of, by and for The People, not themselves.

Hence, for number three, they figure the government is responsible for nothing...  If it is between guns, and butter, they have opted for gun.

Answer 21

nothing, better then a n**i.

Answer 22

There's nothing wrong with being liberal, it's the far left that gives liberalism a bad name. Having said that, I do believe that if our country has more entitlements and only the rich pay the taxes, that would ignite the economic downfall of our country.  

Answer 23

Nothing, just dont' be a conservative...BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!  lol hehe.

Answer 24

It's a brainwashing technique, mean to polarize the country.  It used to be that being liberal was an extreme position, but now it means anyone not towing the GOP line.

Very totalitarian in its way of thinking, and terrifying.

Umm, Cheek, Republicans did more for outsourcing and putting us in debt to China over the last 8 years than anyone before them.

Answer 25

They feel it is evil because it goes against what they believe, and liberals challenge all they state as fact.

I am proud to be a liberal, and would defy someone to state why I am evil for having an opinion that is different from theirs, and that is the only reason.

Answer 26

EVERYTHING...No morals....Living in a fantasy land...out of touch with reality....the list goes on and on