Is cowardice past down generaration to generation among liberals?
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didn't the democrats create the KKK and such?\noh well i am a libertain so i get the best of both worlds
1186245
I think it's because young people are used to having someone else do for them and they haven't had enough life experiences to weigh against what they've been taught in school by their left-leaning teachers and professors. I have found that the "FACTS" do not support many things that I was taught in school. Liberals have misused this mechanism of learning by chanting over and over as fact things that are simply untrue.
328797
Yes.  A coward is anyone who  shows disgraceful fear or timidity.  If a woman doesn't have the courage to say was she wants out of life or is so timid that she allows someone to control her, she is a coward.
1146375
No, people who do so are liars and liars are cowards.
1139410
I would say - vey few.\n\nSince when has any liberals been willing to place their lives on the line for you?
592832
It is true that many young people are liberal.  They want the freedom to do everything and anything that they want to do.  Many of these young people do turn conservative as they age and have children of their own.  They also have the experience to help them understand the need of many conservative ideals.  Not all of the youth turn conservative though.  Many of them still adhere to the liberal ideas they had in their youth and never change their allegiance.  There is no way to tell what someone will believe, politically speaking, despite their beliefs of their youth.
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Though I am not a liberal, I have found that wacko conservatives are more stubborn know it alls than are liberals. Personally, I think both are retarded, but that's just the opinion of a hard line moderate.
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I've had less than that.\n1 out of 100 people are mechanical,ruthless and without fear that can pull it off. It's all about reaction time and how you deal with the stress of the situation.\nI didn't think I was. I was always a big soft liberal.\nStill scares me that I am. I avoid these situations as I do not like this part of me.\nI suggest you do the same.\nEither way. YOU LOSE!
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Many folks in these parts think that it would be just fine if there were no more liberals around, anywhere. They see liberals as anti-religion, anti-American, and anti-anything that they believe in. People develop these attitudes as they are brought up. They get their viewpoints from their parents, their friends, their ministers, and others in their circle of acquaintances. People develop their attitudes irrationally and, unfortunately, not with their own minds. In other words, people do not think for themselves very much.\n\nOne night many years ago, William Jennings Bryan was speaking before a crowd of mostly farmers in Omaha, Nebraska. Afterwards, a young farmer came up to Bryan and earnestly inquired. "Why did God make conservatives?"\n\nBryan replied with another question, "When you want to plow a field, what kind of horses do you use?" The farmer replied that he used his strongest team.\n\n"Well," replied Bryan, "So what kind of plow would you use?" The farmer said he would use the best he had, the one that would plow the deepest and hold fast in the ground.\n\n"Well," said Bryan, "God made strong horses and stubborn plows and that way you get your field cultivated. So God made liberals--they are the strong horses--and conservatives--they are the plow--and if the liberals pull and the conservatives hold on, the work gets done. We need both."\n\nToday most people are quick to claim that they are "a conservative". Fewer claim to be liberals. Some call themselves "progressives", which I take to be a code word for liberal. The word liberal is spelled with four letters in the minds of many Southerners. But how many of us actually know anything about liberalism, or even conservatism, and the respective histories of these traditions? When we say that we are one or the other, what are we really saying?\n\nLiberals and conservatives historically differ in style and in temperament; and where they differ particularly is in their attitudes toward change. "The castle which conservatism is set to defend," said Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is the actual state of things, good and bad." Against this view the liberal urges the wisdom and the feasibility of change in order to improve the human and social condition. The conservative supposes that human contrivance is so treacherous a guide that efforts at making things better will generally produce more grief than good. The liberal, while he does not believe in the perfect nature of man or the infallibility of reason, does contend that intelligent decisions by mankind can improve individual opportunity and security. The conservative is the traditionalist; the liberal, the experimentalist.\n\nA society made up exclusively of conservatives or of liberals would be too dismal to contemplate. A good tension between the two camps provides fertile ground for society as a whole. "Each half is great," wrote Emerson, "but an impossible whole."\n\nWhile the liberal says, "Let's get going," the conservative says, "Wait a minute," and both are essential to progress. The job of innovation is usually performed by the liberal. The job of restraint is held by the conservative. While the durability of our society can be broadly attributed to conservatives, its creativity is the main province of its liberals.\n\nMost people, most of the time, are conservative for the same reason that they are conventional and accept and abide by the customs of their neighbors. They conceive of progress as a series of slow and relatively minor adjustments; drastic change almost always alarms them. The liberal is less patient in his search for remedies for the faults and failures he sees. He is prepared to accept change in larger doses. Both groups are always with us, and the political history of our country is mainly an account of the shifting strengths and weaknesses of these elements. From
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First, it "naive".  Second, as for your argument, it's actually quite the opposite.  Democrats are the ones who do nothing but mislead people, scare people, and spew hatred.  One of these days, when you grow up and open your mind, you'll realize that.
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Gee that's funny, I throw bombs at liberals for fun, and my email is always open.  The day I become afraid of liberals, I pray someone in my family will run me down with their car.\n    Sadly, only one had emailed me, and as it turned out it was nothing but an intelligent respectful argument.  \n   So friend, allow me now to insult your factless whiny accusation.  You do not inevitably see it. That is somewhere on the scale of wishful thinking to downright lie.  So put the picture of Speaker Pelosi away, pull your pants up, and stop crying.  There are better ways to celebrate your election day afterglow isn't there?
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Very good point.  \n\nI think people become intransigent in their points of view because their POVs are being attacked.  There's little room for reasoned discussion when the first statement of an argument is "you're an idiot."
842612
No they will blame the Democrats for being cowards. Cowardace always makes the bullies stronger and meaner.
1001588
The culture war is relative new. It is a battle between the conservative and liberals. It started in the 60's but really6 caught fire in the 90's. Just as My fellow conservatives rally around the President to roll back and stop what happened under Clinton, the liberal want to add to their gains by electing more liberals. At one time there were four factions in the country as both parties had a liberal and a conservative wing. The Republican liberals were and are much smaller then the Democrat conservatives. Liberals used to be only concerned with economic issues, even most of them opposed abortion, gay rights, etc. The battle is hgetting worse as Tye liberals have managed to convince a higher share of the youth to buy their agenda. However as people get older they turn to become more conservative. except those who want leadership.
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Liberals are a funny bunch.  They are hypocritical and completely self deceived.  How else could the term "limosine liberal" pack such a punch?\n\nIf you tell a liberal his words and actions add up to hatred for America, he will vehemently deny it.  But they do nothing to make our country stronger, more prosperous, and more secure.  All they do is b**ch all the time.  They offer nothing substantive to the debate.\n\nLike Lee Iacoca said back in the 1980s, "either lead, follow, or get out of the way".  I wish Liberals would just get out of our way.  Ronald Reagan set us on the right road, but liberals keep wanting to take a detour.\n\nMaybe, as in the case of uber-liberals like Al Franken, it's a form of self-loathing.  They realize, on some level, they don't deserve how good they've got it, and it makes them feel guilty.
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i think most of the cowardly things have been said like self harm to avoid combat and running away. In the British Army the Royal Artillery are still reminded of thier cowardly act in the second world war, when they ran away from their guns 20km from the front line and left medics to fire the guns for them, by a yellow band on their regiments stable belt and it will always stay there for future militants to know the results of cowardness
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Cowardice is staying the course out of fear of admitting that you were wrong.\n\nCowardice is staying with a broken strategy out of fear that you might appear incompetent.\n\nAt this point, anyone who doesn't listen to the spin machines on either side of this debacle (and can read congressional reports) knows that Iraq was, AT BEST, a mistake. All the reasons for invading Iraq were falsified. \n\nThere was no plan for what would happen after the invasion, or what any middle east strategist would call a plan. Whoever thought that a country that used to be torn by centuries of social and religious strife would magically harmonize and embrace democracy was completely naive. Just look at what happened in Kosovo.\n\nIn fact, our invasion has made things worse. Just do a search for the latest congressional report on terrorism.\n\nNow most normal people, when they realize they've made a mistake, apologize and try to correct that mistake. Most normal people realize that if you don't fix a mistake that it can become an even bigger mistake.\n\nSo that's what we have here. A result of what was a mistake turning into a really big mistake and getting bigger everyday.\n\nSo how do you fix something of this magnitude? Well, you really can't. It's now up to the Iraqi people. Our presence there only acts as a lightening rod.\n\nI'm sure some will say "Well with a big enough force...". Those who say that apparently aren't familiar with resistance fighters, especially ones with religious fervor. They also aren't familiar with a similar situation that happened not to long ago involving the USSR and a rag tag band of "freedom-fighters" led by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. The USSR lost by the way.\n\nYou can't force people to do something. They have to do it on their own. Forcing them just causes anger and enmity, even if what you're trying to force them to do is for their own good.\n\nThe ideal soultion is to get a large multi-national peace keeping force in Iraq. Unfortunately, the US blew that capital when it basically ignored the UN and invaded Iraq anyway.\n\nSo now what? Well, we can stay there and be stuck in a conflict that never ends (see Vietnam, USSR vs. Afghanistan) that just keeps escalting in costs in life and capital, or we accept the fact that we made and incredible mistake (which we did) and cut our losses.\n\nI can guarantee that if they start a draft, you'd see a full scale revolt against the government. More than half the people believe Iraq is a mistake and any politician with aspirations of re-election wouldn't touch a draft resolution with a 6 foot disgraced republican lobbyist.\n\n~X~