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I base my philosophies on thomas jefferson's line of thinking. socially liberal, fiscally conservative. I am impossible to make fun of, unless you point out the fact that I'm ugly, which is just plain mean.
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Originally Posted by buildings_and_bridges
This forum becomes much less entertaining when people start pretending they're in middle school. I don't care what their political leanings are.
I believe very strongly that this would be a better forum if people could get past all this "you're a conservative so you ____ " and "you're a liberal so you ____" crap.
No need. I am judging the entertainment value of the thread. If you feel led to improve the thread, do it. As to now, nothing has been done to build on the OP, just partisan BS.
The whole thing was a misnomer, IMO. I opened it up with social liberal in my mind because it seems that those issues are debated most hotly, but the OP meant fiscal liberal instead. And I guess the implication is that if one is a fiscal conservative, he can't be a social liberal, when we can see from this forum that those people certainly exist. Whose political beliefs are that simple, if they're really giving it some thought?
the vase majority of people who would classify themselves as "liberal" or "conservative" certainly would. if someone didn't classify themselves as either one of those, they would probably be more easily persuaded IMO.
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I don't see how these things are comparable. People have personal preferences, certainly. Pop music versus indie music or what-have-you. That's quite different from saying, "My political beliefs are the only correct ones and I'm not willing to listen to what anyone else has to say." I don't know that the vast majority of people feel that way.
I base my philosophies on thomas jefferson's line of thinking. socially liberal, fiscally conservative. I am impossible to make fun of, unless you point out the fact that I'm ugly, which is just plain mean.
Then why do you make statements like I've seen you make about liberals and conservatives if you share some of both of their beliefs?
Though, there are some I have met that have been every bit of the wacko and crazed liberal you might think. On those, I wouldn't even waste a cheap bullet from a dollar store to put them out of their misery for they truly are the pit of the bile of humanity.
if someone says that they are socially liberal, I am cool with it. if someone says they are liberal, I feel they believe in big government. if someone says they are conservative, old school conservative, I agree with them. people who classify themselves as republicans, to me that means socially conservative, which I hate. the bible has no place in our government, and this country has no affiliation with christianity.
one time I met a dude who was socially conservative and fiscally liberal. what an odd combo. I saw him arguing with a woman once that an abortion was immoral, but if she was going to have one, the government should pay for it.
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Then why do you make statements like I've seen you make about liberals and conservatives if you share some of both of their beliefs?
That is until sometime in the mid-1990's. Like Paul on the road to Damascus, I was blinded and when my eyes opened, I realized that my thinking had been all wrong.
Cool.
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Not one person on this forum can honestly look themselves squarely in the wallet and say I feel it would be best if I just gave it to a bureaucrat for management. Yet, that is what we do everytime we send a penny, a dollar, or more to the government.
Unless you are a liberal who enjoys getting free money and wants more.
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I am not about to suggest that Republicans are better bureaucrats, for they aren't. But, I will tell you that the free market with all its faults is a much better manager of my money than a DC bungler. The big difference is that when Republicans are in charge, I don't send as much of my work to DC.
Politicians are thieves. Why anyone thinks one is better than another is either lying to themselves to please someone else, or flat our sheepish.
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The free market may hurt at times, but like a democrat forestry bureaucrat will tell you, forest fires are not all bad, most infact are more beneficial than destructive.
I prefer the free market over socialism, which is what the dems preach.
I base my philosophies on thomas jefferson's line of thinking. socially liberal, fiscally conservative. I am impossible to make fun of, unless you point out the fact that I'm ugly, which is just plain mean.
hahha!
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