"If by a 'Liberal' they mean...

[babylonsister]

[demtenjeep]

1. awesome

thank you

[Kalidurga]

2. I just got blinded by a revelation.

I have a hard time understanding why Republicans demonize the poor. Now, it is clear. If Democrats care about the welfare of the poor, well they will just have to make it so that it is practically evil to care about the poor. Poor people are ruining the economy, the social order of things, they are lazy, ect... Now what kind a person cares about those kind a people?

[libinnyandia]

3. It is so ironic that so many Republicans claim to hold in high regard someone who expressed such

great concdrn for the poor yet theypromote poilicies that cause great harm to the poor. There was a letter printed in my local paper complaining about the eitc for poor people. These idiots are so ignorant about history that they don't even know Republicans not so very long ago supported it.

[patrice]

4. There's a profound misunderstanding of human nature, TTE, "Deprivation, pain, and suffering

cause a person to develop to the fullest of their potentials and so doing they become financially successful. Whatever they become as a result of those challenges is better than anything else that they might have been possible had things been otherwise." Thus, pain and suffering cause the best of all possible worlds. Obviously, this assumption fits their own stories about their own advantages and privileges very conveniently.

They never ask themselves what might have been if __________________________ , nor what has been lost, nor if perhaps they themselves don't know that they don't know what they don't know. Or if some of them ever do ask those sorts of questions, all of their answers are about how to serve themselves better and fuck what has been lost, *W*H*A*T*E*V*E*R* that is.

[TheWraith]

5. This is why I disdain the term "progressive."

In case anyone was wondering. It seems like little other than an attempt to run away from the word "liberal."

[Kalidurga]

9. What's more, liberal and progressive are two entirely different things.

Progressives supported prohibition. Liberals would say that what people drink in their own homes is none of the governments business. Well at least that is what I say.

[Cleita]

6. My answer, when accused of being a liberal, always was that if wanting clean air,

water and wholesome food was being liberal, then I stand accused.

[Kath1]

7. Yes, I am a liberal

I don't want corporations to make millions off of war. I don't want to see poverty in the richest of nations. I think women should have reproducive rights.

[Tx4obama]

8. ... on the definition of Liberal

" ... I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor. "

From The Debate episode, season seven of the West Wing
"The Debate" between Arnold Vinick and Matt Santos
Written by Lawrence O'Donnell