There is Nothing Wrong with being LIBERAL

[MoseyWalker]

absolutely nothing.

Since the days of Raygun, it has been used as a negative word/thought.

Sorry.

Being a liberal is a positive, life affirming thing.

get it through your head.

being a liberal means that you care about your mother's care in a rest home.

being a liberal means that you care about your sister being able to go to college after having a baby.

being a liberal means that you care about people not being able to afford the cost of heat in the winter, and you don't want them to die.

being a liberal means that you care.

There is nothing wrong with being a person who cares. A LIBERAL.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Word.

nt

[Duer 157099]

2. Exactly. It bugs me when people shy away from it

It's Pro vs. Con -- we're the Pros, they're the Cons.

They're Conservative, conniving, contemptable, hopefully convicted soon.

We're Progressive, proactive, professional, hopefully productive soon in fixing this country.

Liberal, progressive, those are beautiful words. Wear them with pride.

[bdamomma]

3. I am not ashamed to think of myself as being a liberal.

[Idioteque]

4. The US is the only place where liberal is a bad word.

In other countries, centre-right parties like to claim that "we aren't conservative, we are classical liberals or market liberals."

Look at the Liberal Democrat Party in Japan and the Liberal Party in Australia.

[EST]

5. All people of faith, whose faith is based on the bible, need to

read Isaiah chapter 32. Here is a relevant piece:

5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

[MoseyWalker]

7. wow, i have to say

thanks!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. Churl

Churl: in Isaiah 32:5 (R.V. marg., "crafty"), means a deceiver. In 1 Samuel 25:3, the word churlish denotes a man that is coarse and ill-natured, or, as the word literally means, "hard." The same Greek word as used by the LXX. here is found in Matthew 25:24, and there is rendered "hard."

http://www.christnotes.org/dictionary.php?dict=ebd&id=829


DU word-of-the-day


I had to look it up :shrug: thanks! :hi:

[Ice4Clark]

6. President John F. Kennedy on being a liberal...

President John F. Kennedy on being a liberal...

"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith. For liberalism is not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves

I believe also in the United States of America, in the promise that it contains and has contained throughout our history of producing a society so abundant and creative and so free and responsible that it cannot only fulfill the aspirations of its citizens, but serve equally well as a beacon for all mankind. I do not believe in a superstate. I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well. But I believe in a government which acts, which exercises its full powers and full responsibilities. Government is an art and a precious obligation; and when it has a job to do, I believe it should do it. And this requires not only great ends but that we propose concrete means of achieving them.

Our responsibility is not discharged by announcement of virtuous ends. Our responsibility is to achieve these objectives with social invention, with political skill, and executive vigor. I believe for these reasons that liberalism is our best and only hope in the world today. For the liberal society is a free society, and it is at the same time and for that reason a strong society. Its strength is drawn from the will of free people committed to great ends and peacefully striving to meet them. Only liberalism, in short, can repair our national power, restore our national purpose, and liberate our national energies.

What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[MoseyWalker]

11. I would strongly encourage you

to post this as a new thread.

Please?

[DeeDeeNY]

8. I don't understand why more Dems don't embrace that word

A few months ago, Tom Hartman played a recording of JFK giving
a great speech in which he explained why he was proud to be a liberal.
When it's explained what liberals stand for, who would not want that?

[flobee1]

10. Since the days of Raygun

I'm amazed at how much that term has changed from then to now

Listen to the song "love me, I'm a liberal" by Phil Ochs
His description of liberals sound so much like todays republicans its scary

"I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
as long as they don't move next door
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal"


"But I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal"

[RawMaterials]

12. being a liberal means that you are anti slavery

republicans used to be liberal now they are not.

[MissMarple]

13. Our constitution is a liberal document, written by liberals.

The GOP, led by George&Co are, by their actions, illiberal and against the Constitution, hence, they are totalitarian want to be, un American, unpatriotic traitors. They think the Constitution is "a god damned piece of paper". The people who support them are opportunists, fearful cowards, the willfully ignorant. May God have mercy on their souls.

Liberals focus on the individual, not the state. They wish to empower individuals, not the state over individuals. Liberals are not wimpy. Wimpy people are. And right now, the GOP leadership is looking VERY wimpy.