On Wikipedia, a page titled “infamous liberals” would have a definition and link to the “liberal” page. This page doesn’t, which immediately gives the impression that the definition is “people I don’t like”. But I looked it up: https://www.conservapedia.com/Liberal
A liberal (alternately called a left-winger or leftist) in America is someone who advocates an increase in government spending, power, and control, typically through taxpayer-funded programs such as Welfare, failed public schools, ObamaCare and support for wasteful foreign aid. Liberals often support the censorship and the denial of Christian values[1] and conservative viewpoints.
Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion military budget, so just government spending obviously doesn’t make someone a liberal. “Liberals often support” is something they claim liberals do, seemingly not something that makes a person a liberal.
So the claim seems to boil down to government control over the population being what makes someone a liberal. But surely the most government control-freaky in the US are the people behind ICE? And which party is it that wants to micro-manage control over women’s bodies? Which party has elements which want to forbid interracial marriage? Which party is it that want to forbid no-fault diverse? Which party is it that loves the war on drugs, largely even marihuana?
I also like how liberals support “failed public schools” and “wasteful foreign aid”. So if I support non-failed public schools and non-wasteful foreign aid, then I am not a liberal?
I feel like labels like “liberal”, “conservative”, “socialist”, “right wing”, “centrist”, and “left wing” are largely meaningless, as used in the US today.
It doesn’t actually make sense as an ideology or even a coherent set of values. It’s a cargo cult of ideology, faking the shape of a coherent ideology. Instead of starting with a set of values and ideals, then building a set of beliefs of how things should be, they’re picking and choosing values and ideals when it is convenient for justifying what they already want to do.
On Wikipedia, a page titled “infamous liberals” would have a definition and link to the “liberal” page. This page doesn’t, which immediately gives the impression that the definition is “people I don’t like”. But I looked it up: https://www.conservapedia.com/Liberal
Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion military budget, so just government spending obviously doesn’t make someone a liberal. “Liberals often support” is something they claim liberals do, seemingly not something that makes a person a liberal.
So the claim seems to boil down to government control over the population being what makes someone a liberal. But surely the most government control-freaky in the US are the people behind ICE? And which party is it that wants to micro-manage control over women’s bodies? Which party has elements which want to forbid interracial marriage? Which party is it that want to forbid no-fault diverse? Which party is it that loves the war on drugs, largely even marihuana?
I also like how liberals support “failed public schools” and “wasteful foreign aid”. So if I support non-failed public schools and non-wasteful foreign aid, then I am not a liberal?
comedy gold
I feel like labels like “liberal”, “conservative”, “socialist”, “right wing”, “centrist”, and “left wing” are largely meaningless, as used in the US today.
I hope we can use the left/right terminology less at some point in my lifetime.
I hate how the regressive side is called the “right”.
Only when said by an idiot. Do you let how idiots use words define your thoughts?
It doesn’t actually make sense as an ideology or even a coherent set of values. It’s a cargo cult of ideology, faking the shape of a coherent ideology. Instead of starting with a set of values and ideals, then building a set of beliefs of how things should be, they’re picking and choosing values and ideals when it is convenient for justifying what they already want to do.