Liberal

Barack Obama advocates the use of Keynesian economic concepts despite the fact that the pedophile John Maynard Keynes was incompetent and a fraud.

A liberal (not to be confused with a leftist) is someone who rejects traditional and Biblical standards, often for delusional altruistic reasons. Some may be Christian, but they are rarely immensely committed to Christianity. Liberalism began as a movement for individual liberties, but today is increasingly statist and, as in Europe, welfare state-ist. Liberalism has changed over the years and degenerated into a delusional (in the sense of economic views) and anti-traditional ideology.

For example, Franklin Delano Roosevelt firmly believed in private sector unions, but vehemently opposed and condemned public sector unions, stating that the idea of collective bargaining can't be transferred to the public sector, as that would result in the government being unable to carry out its duties. Yet today, decades later, Democrats and liberals are almost in cahoots with public sector unions, as they "donate" money to the reelection campaign in exchange for more taxpayer money in their wallets and fluffed up pensions.

Polling data over several decades has consistently shown that more Americans identify as conservative than as liberal, by a ratio of 2:1. A liberal generally supports many of the following political positions and practices:

• Spending money on corrupt programs.
• Government solving economic problems
• The belief that terrorism is not a huge threat, and that the only reason radical Muslim extremists hate us is because of bad foreign policy
• Taxpayer-funded and/or legalized abortion
• Censorship of teacher-led prayer in classrooms and school/state-sponsored religious events
• Support for gun control
• Affirmative action
• Support of obscenity, pornography and violence in video games as a First Amendment right
• Getting big business out of government through progressive taxation.
• Government-aided medical care, such as Universal Health Care
• Taxpayer-funded and government-controlled public education
• The denial of traditional gender roles
• Insisting that men and women be placed in the same jobs in the military
• Legalized same-sex marriage
• Tax and spend
• Overburdening the economic sector with regulations
• Trying to impede the economic freedom of Job Creators
• Support and spreading of political correctness
• Support of non-syndicalist labor unions
• Teaching acceptance of promiscuity through sexual education (the teaching of safe sex) rather than teaching abstinence from sex
• A "living Constitution" that is reinterpreted as liberals prefer, rather than how it was intended
• Government programs to rehabilitate criminals
• Abolition of the death penalty

Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was a Democratic Party activist who had his picture taken with First Lady Rosalynn Carter in 1978. In an interview where he denied killing any of his victims, John Gacy said he was bisexual and "very liberal".

• Environmentalism
• Disarmament treaties
• Globalism
• Opposition to the integration of church and state.
• Opposition to full private property rights.
• Reinstating the Fairness Doctrine
• In 2005, it was reported by CBS News that liberals were the most likely supporters of the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution is a key component of atheistic ideologies in the Western World.
• Opposition to domestic wire-tapping as authorized in the Patriot Act
• Opposition of Operation Iraqi Freedom, a major part of the War on Terrorism
• Withholds support to the War on Terrorism and the War in Iraq
• Tolerance of different ideas and lifestyles
• Supports financially irresponsible policies
• Following policies which are proven to be incorrect
• Do not support a laissez-faire capitalist economy and support regulation of business
• Encouragement of global warming alarmism

According to current dictionaries and their own beliefs, a liberal is "a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties" or "a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets," or "open-minded or tolerant, especially free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc." or "favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, especially as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties."

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Liberalism in Europe today

In Europe, on the other hand, parties that call themselves liberal are moderate in outlook, ranging from centre-left to centre-right, promote typically economic and business freedom. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a party of the European Parliament that represents most liberal parties from European countries. Similar policies are promoted by many liberal parties throughout the world, such as the Liberal Party of Australia.

Trade unions and socialist parties often criticize politicians for promoting lower taxes on business, or more flexible hiring and firing laws, by calling them "liberals" or neoliberals. Thus, just as in the US, "liberal" may occasionally be used as a term of abuse. But when someone is called "liberal" in Europe, it has an entirely different meaning than in the US. In fact, the US meaning of liberal is more similar to the politics of European socialist or social democratic parties.

Historical Liberalism

In history, the word "liberal" has meant different things at different times, and was associated with individual liberty in prior centuries. In the postwar period, liberals supported government intervention in the economy and welfare state policies, as well as peaceful coexistence with the communist block, which are not liberal policies in the sense of classical liberalism. After the end of the cold war, with the demise of socialism and communism, many liberals embraced some ideas from economic neo-liberalism, and coined it the "Third Way". In the area of national security and foreign policy liberals in the U.S. failed to define a consistent stance, even after the events of 9/11 and the beginning of the war in Iraq. Liberals generally support affirmative action, gay marriage, and abortion.

Original meaning: Classical Liberalism

Liberalism is a political philosophy with freedom as its core value. The term was originally applied to supporters of individual liberties and equal rights, but, in America, the term has come to represent a movement of social change that often conflicts with conservative values such as moral values and tradition.

See Classical Liberalism. Compare Libertarianism.

Infamous liberals

See also: Infamous liberals

• Margaret Sanger

• John Wayne Gacy - In an interview where he denied killing any of his victims, serial killer John Wayne Gacy said he was bisexual and "very liberal". Gacy was also a Democratic Party activist who had his picture taken with Rosalynn Carter.

Liberal Organizations

• AARP - American Association of Retired People
• ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
• ACORN - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
• AFL-CIO - American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
• AI - Amnesty International
• ANSWER - Act Now to Stop War and End Racism
• CAIR - Council on American-Islamic Relations
• Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
• Democratic National Committee
• Greenpeace
• MoveOn.org
• NARAL - National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
• NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Committee for an Effective Congress
• National Education Association
• NOW - National Organization of Women
• PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• Progressives for Obama
• Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
• SEIU - Service Employees International Union
• U.S. Peace Council

Source: The Politix Group

See Also

• Conservative resources
• Articles about liberals
• Classical liberal
• Drinking Liberally
• Godless liberal
• Last wordism
• Liberal celebrity obsession
• Liberal Behavior on Conservapedia
• Liberal Christianity
• Liberal Democrats
• Liberal Elite
• Liberal Falsehoods
• Liberal Fascism
• Liberal friendship
• Liberal Gloss
• Liberal grading
• Liberal hypocrisy
• Liberal hysteria
• Liberal Intellectualism
• Liberal labels
• Liberal Lies About the American Right
• Liberal logic
• Liberal Mind
• Liberal Party
• Liberal supremacist
• Massachusetts liberal
• Progressives
• Scientific Illiteracy and Liberals

Further Information

• New Liberal Terms
• Conservative Links
• http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/conservative-vs-liberal-beliefs/