Why is it that everybody who doesn't  agree with everybody else labled a  liberal?
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The word "liberal" is being turned into a dirty word by right-wing republican wacko's such as Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Regan.  According to them, if someone breaks the law by jaywalking, they are a liberal.\nIf you appear unpatriotic, you are a liberal.\nIf you question the war, they say you are a liberal.\nIf you dissagree with the "republican" president, you are a liberal.\nThose listed above have gone as far as saying that if you as so much question the reasons for invading Iraq, you're not supporting the troops and you should be tried for treason.\nYes, I find it disturbing and so do a lot of other even minded people in America. \nIn spite of their good ratings on radio, Rush Limbaugh, Mitch Albom, Michael Regan and those like them, do not express the majority opinions of Americans.\nRemember, the Jerry Springer Show gets good ratings too.
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Because liberals can't argue issues without attacking someone's character. All they can say is Bush sucks and that they hate him but they can't come up with a issue that people can get behind and vote FOR. "Vote for me because Bush sucks" didn't work for the election in '04 and will not work in '08. (Actually, I don't think liberals realize that Bush isn't on the ballot in '08 but they keep attacking him like he is - it proves how out of it they really are)
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The Liberals motto seems to be to disagree with everything in the established order and to agree with everything else. However, they don't seem to be able to make up their minds which is which. The line has to be drawn somewhere without so much in-fighting and bickering. We the people want a well run government which takes care of our needs, not special interest groups,Liberal or Conservative. We pay taxes to run a government which is supposed to serve us. But all I see is the richer becoming richer, the poor more impoverished. Liberal or Conservative, they are taking care of themselves(high salarys which they vote to themselves; paid for by us:free rides) and they are set-up for life while in the background they fight with each other to blind us to the fact that we are being neglected while they live like kings. Its all an elaborate shell game to them.
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If you used the dictionary definition of a liberal, most conservatives would want to be liberals, or would think they already are liberals:\n\n"marked by generosity and openhandedness, broad-minded, tolerant, bountiful, munificent" and so forth.  All except the part "lacking moral restraint, licentious" applies equally to conservatives.\n\nGood question, because I don't think a liberal defines himself the way a conservative defines a liberal.  And vice versa.
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Why is a liberal labeled as such?  A liberal wants to do away with the 2nd Amendment, and limit how average citizens can protect themselves and their property against criminals. Sounds limiting to me, instead of how the word is supposed to mean.
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I understand your point.  I think it has to do with the fact that people are intensely stuck into categorizing. If a person considers him or herself to be liberal. They will normally take a harsh view on a conservative question that is not asked in a meaningful way. Or the other way, if a liberal question starts off with "why did bush kill our soldiers?" you will get an angry response from the right. That is why I asked the question that you answered. We have always been a society of labels. As far back as this countries founding there were labels on people for their political views or origin. Today it just takes an ever so hateful view and ignorance.
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I think it's all a matter of perception. When liberals, such as myself, do present evidence to back a claim up, it is often viewed by SOME neocon nutjobs as vicious and nearsighted when in fact it proves to be the truth in my (our) estimation. I suggest taking a broader look at any political issue and then view it from different perspectives, i.e. race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, etc., then ask yourself "if I was in their position what would be acceptable and reasonable". It all comes down to ones perception, when it comes to our great country it behooves us (citizens) to think with our brains and NOT our hearts. Now go have nice tall glass of Kool-Aid and think about what I just said.
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we share similar but different views on politics and life. im just me. if you want to call me a liberal than whatever but i dont see myself belonging to any groups. mainly because i cant agree 100% with an individual group. my political ideas are intermingled. i would say though that i am more liberal than conservative. my parents are more conservative but have a few liberal ideas too. they are good people.
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Because liberals, like most people, are ignorant when it comes their own political ideology. I believe a lot of liberals haven't really thought about their positions hard enough to see the inconsistency. \n\nThey don't like the idea of the government telling them who they can sleep with, but they have no problem with the government telling them who they can do business with, and under what terms. They don't like paying to promote certain religious positions with tax dollars, but don't see anything wrong with tax dollars going to support certain cultural or artistic positions (i.e. art subsidies).\n\nThough tangerine is partly right; conservatives are just as guilty of being hypocrites. You can't really argue that the state must regulate our behavior to make us "moral", but that it shouldn't regulate our behavior to make us "fair."
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The answer is in the question, "Liberalsuck". \n\nLiberals are, generally, uneducated (though there are a few in acedemia who are edeucated beyond their intellectual capacity) and ignorant. They also base much on feelings, rather than on simple, hard logic. \n\nSince libs are generally uninformed (though they seem to think they are BETTER informed than we conservatives), there is little else they can do than to throw unimaginative insults and profanities... It's sad really.
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Personally I think being called a liberal is worse.  The connotations of the word in itself are calling people a know nothing empty brained fool incapable of logical thought.
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The problem is that-regardless of what the claim-liberals are all about individuals. They care only about issues that relate to them and what is in the best interest of them and them alone.  While we like to see the whole country flourish, and not just sit around and complain about how hard we have it.  Your points will never get across to them because they don't understand what it means to sacrifice your own benefits-and your own life-for what you believe in.\n\nIn response to EVILEMPIRE's statement:  That seems to be another problem with liberals, they feel that if you don't question every single thing, you are a "thoughtless drone".  There's nothing wrong with sometimes questioning government, it's what the country was founded on but, just because you agree with things that the governement does that doesn't make you a complete moron or a "thoughtless drone."  If you really wanted to go that route I could say the same about liberals who believe everything the Communist News Network throws at them.
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intillectual liberals? isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?
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A lot of people dislike Liberals because they have ideas that are not based specifically around faith and religion. Some people also think that just because they are not as conservitive that they will make decisions too quick and make a mess of the world. People just figure, "Better be conservitive and safe then liberal and on edge and sorry!"
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how can you oversimplify everyone into "liberal" and "conservative" labels? At this point, those words have no meaning, because they could mean absolutely anything.\n\nFor example, liberal can mean socialist, or it could mean capitalist, and conservative could mean noninterventionist, or it could mean interventionist. Since these are directly opposed, the words have no objective meaning.\n\nThrow away the labels and use some logic.
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I am happy to disabuse here.\n\nLiberalism does not denote support for any type of hatred. In fact, by definition, liberalism represents open-mindedness, erudition and individualism. None of this is at all related to "hatred".\n\nRemember that the terms "liberal" and "liberalism" are often thrown around as generalized political pejoratives, especially by people who themselves hold relatively closed-minded attitudes. Anyone can throw a word around pretending what it means, but the dictionaries are the final arbiters of semantic verismilitude. \n\nAre you a friend to the English language? Can you trust a dictionary? I am totally unafraid of dictionaries. Are you?\n\n\nLiberals do not like government intursion in personal freedom (into personal health and family, etc.), and also tend relatively to disdain militarism and violence and preparations for violence (which is not really all that "hateful", is it?).\n\n\nGood luck.
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I think it's that the opposite of liberal is conservative.  Conservatives favor the ways and institutions of the past, and would like to revert to them.  And many republicans are conservatives.  Their ideal is therefor the polar opposite of liberals.  And no, I don't think there's anything wrong with liberals, both keeping an open mind and respecting the past seem like good ideas to me.  That's why I couldn't be a member of the press.  I make too much sense and am too respectful of other peoples opinions.