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Originally Posted by LeavingFlorida05
Those people aren't liberals, Alaskagrl. Those are authoritarians trying to convince people they're something they're not. It comes from the left and the right.
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Ok, then I need to update my definition of LIBERAL, FLA. The way I see it, a liberal view includes the following: (this is more based on individual examples of "cases" where the following have been illustrated by the "left" side).
A lack of belief in personal accountability. (ex: guns, not people, kill people; "his abuse as a child caused him to (insert crime)"
A belief system that includes the government as THE responsible party for taking care of the protection, finances, and needs of all of it's country's people. And other country's people who are here illegally, apparently.
(Ex: to prevent murder, we must get rid of guns)
A belief in spending government money to solve most social problems.
A belief system that views the needs of (insert non-human creature) to be equal in value to those of human society.
A belief system that does not recognize the correlary between supply and demand. (Big business is evil incarnate)
A group of people whose illusions about reality and whose ideologies spell out a danger to the rest of us, because in order to protect what they view as GOOD, they'll do the best they can to influence the govnernment to regulate everything...and then attack government when it upholds the policies and rights THEY endorse if they don't agree with a certain instance (ex: free speech and Don Imus--the above concept was illustrated wonderfully by the fallout interviews with black rapper commentary).
It has been a while since I looked up the actual textbook definitions of "libertarian", "socialist" or "communist" so I could be very far off the mark on those. I understand you classify yourself as a Libertarian, FLA? Would you mind describing that further? Perhaps I need a lesson in terminology myself
That's a genuine request, by the way.