I would like to know how many people on this site
consider themselves Liberals , ? and if so how do you live your lives on a daily basis to support that? Please don't blast me because I don't fit in , just answer the question !
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In contrast, liberalism emphasizes the importance of having a good society - community - as essential to the capacity of individuals for self-actualization and leading a good life. Many liberals agree that competition can be helpful in promoting innovation, but consider cooperation as the key to creating a good society. Liberals tend to consider individual "success" more as positive life aspects such as health and peace of mind, with financial wealth as secondary; and measure the success of a community by how well everyone does in achieving a decent life.
So this is what it boils down to:
Liberals place primary value on community and cooperation.
Conservatives place primary value on individualism and competition.
I don't think either group - except perhaps the extreme fringes of each - totally rejects the primary value of the other group, but rather make it secondary (or less) to their own primary value.
Yes I am a liberal. What I do as a liberal is support, financially and with volunteer hours (when I'm not working at my full time job), various causes that relate to what I consider the most important issues where I can make an effective contribution.
What I do every day, most important of all, is try to treat everyone I interact with as a valued human being deserving of respect, and in small ways try to brighten the day of people who have it the toughest. Little things like saying hello to the janitorial staff, asking how their day's going once in awhile; saying thank you to people who provide a service; and never (well I try) getting pissed at people who are just doing their job as best they can, even if the current outcome is effing up my day, because it isn't their fault. That's what respect is, and to me, it is required of anyone to honestly wear the label "liberal". But that part is just my opinion.
How'd I do?
I doubt that. Do you have any examples?
I said, "All of them." That includes me.
TYY
...living in a very small rural town of 400 in central Utah; surrounded by extremely conservative, religious, glennbeckhannityloving republicans.
TYY 
It's a very poor town. I'm kind to my neighbors. I help them when they need help; in their gardens or trimming trees or mowing lawns; or rounding up the occasional loose cow or pig. I let them use my pastures. I sometimes feed and water the pet cats, dogs and farm animals who get overlooked when money is tight; which is always.
I engage the neighborhood kids with art projects and fix flat tires on their bikes. I play my music loud and dance with them on my front lawn while playing drums and other percussive instruments like bells and rice eggs. I listen to them and treat them like equals. I talk to them about goals, basic finances and dental hygiene; and college. I let them hide their piggy banks at my house where it's safe. I show them trust. I ask for their opinions. I fix them iced tea. I make them laugh. I tell them they're beautiful, talented and smart. I remember their birthdays. (They're 6 and 7.) I pay them to pick up pine cones and smash cans for recycling. I help them to forget that their father is a disfunctional alcoholic and their mother abandoned them long ago for a life of meth and homelessness.
I go to city council meetings and hold the good ole' boy network's feet to the fire.
I'm not perfect but I'm authentic.
TYY
I was going to say that I purchased organic milk, but Mr. GreenHouse had to spoil it.
I did try to collect rainwater to irrigate my yard, but all I ended up with was an unintended mini-pond.
Every day, I conserve energy. 
political activity.
I believe in individuals and society trying to do "the greatest good for the greatest number," a liberal utilitarian stance. For 34 years I lived it in my work as a Chicago high school teacher, with diverse professionals and students in a college prep program. My school was 95% African-American. Taught grades 9 - 12, mostly seniors for the last ten years, reading -- basic and advanced -- writing -- from personal to expert audiences, from sentence construction styles to multi-sourced research writing (Rand Paul would have flunked my research unit.), cultural concepts and constructs through African-American Lit, Women's Lit, World Lit and Film Studies (though visual grammar, sequence and editing are their own 'reading' world). I've keep long standing relationships with my former students, who still visit, call me, etc.
I have African-American, Latino, Korean, Chinese, Filipino friends and neighbors who actually like me.
I've cared for three foster kids -- one Greek, one Appalachian, one African-American.
Back in the pre-computer/internet days, I researched and wrote a three-part series on apartheid and how my union's pension fund propped it -- named companies in the investment portfolio, amounts, and alternative investment vehicles that could give equal or better returns -- resulting in the investment board's divesting over $12 million from companies that did business in South Africa. Go, AFT Local #1!
I walked the picket line for teachers/students, along with students and parents, at least four times, the latest being in the huge downtown Chicago rallies of last year.
I've gone to Washington twice to protest -- once, in Chicago to protest the invastion of Iraq, once for single payer with Oregon's Mad Doctors For Single Payer Healthcare, and took a former student along with me.
I canvassed during both of Obama's campaigns, the first in Wyoming, Michigan, which turned blue; the second in Davenport, Iowa.
I was a full donor to Obama's first campaign.
I flew two student workers round trip out from California to Ohio to work on Obama's first campaign.
I've written tough letters to Dick Durbin, Bobby Rush, all the other underperforming party leaders, like Schumer and Wasserman-Schultz. I've got a two page, signed letter of response from the young Barack Obama as he moved toward his presidential campaign.
I flew a young, poor radical out to New York to be part of the Occupy Wall Street protests; he worked on their newspaper, the Occupy Wall St. Journal, there.
I donated over $1,000 in goods and cash to Occupy, both in Chicago and elsewhere.
I've bought and passed out ten copies of Derrick Jensen's Deep Green Resistance to Occupiers, along with ten or more copies of the Ex-Worker Collective's book, Work.
I've been a long standing member of the ACLU, NAACP and Southern Poverty Law Center since the early 80's.
I used to subscribe to, read and give away liberal rags like Mother Jones, Z Magazine, The Baffler, etc.
I shop locally, buy whole foods, eat and dress frugally, ride my bike to get stuff done when possible. I only shop at blue national stores.
I, my husband and my two grown children -- one a businessman and community organizer in New Mexico -- always voted Democratic, remaining cognizant of how left of almost all candidates I am.
I call out and fact-based correct stupid rightwing shit on FB and elsewhere, and get excited about reading DU every day. I love this place!
Now that I'm retired, I keep oldsters I know quaking in their boots about letting their right wing shit slip in my presence; now many of them are coming around to seeing the world outside their bubbles.
I do go on and on, as liberals sometimes do ... but hey, you asked.
The way I see it, living Liberal gives hope.
and still don't.
i cannot really easily define what I think it means, but I sorta saw liberals as establishment centrists, and I always wanted more radical systemic changes than that.
What I would really like to see, if you are interested, is described rather neatly by John Ruskin in the preface to his book "Unto this Last" but even beyond that with any sort of change of system, the society I would like to see would have people being more decent to each other, kinder and more co-operative. Dr. King's Beloved Community http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022244131
As to how I live my life daily. Well mostly I go to work and do my job, and try to save money for my employer. I try to be a Boy Scout - in the sense of doing "a good deed for the day". But isn't THAT a conservative organization?
I usually ride a bike, even in the cold of winter, instead of driving.
I recycle. Not only my own items, but also many of the cans that other people either throw away, or throw on the street.
I pick up glass bottles when I can, something I started in graduate school back in 1988 or so. I was walking along in Lincoln, seeing lots of discarded bottles and said to my self "Dang, I hate seeing all those bottles along the sidewalk." and my self said back "well you have two empty hands, don't you? Pick some of them up. 'It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.'
I volunteer and donate in ways which I think will improve the world. For example (although I notice I have dropped most of those magazine subscriptions and quit the Sierra club (oops :blush http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/145
...by blaming America first, hating our freedoms, and forgetting that this is a Christian nation.
