We seem to be so damn liberal and think everyone should be like us. I prefer the isolation years!! And for God's sake lets leave the present administration or any other out of your answers! Jeesh, must we blame every poblem on our elected governmeny?!
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America will not and cannot mind it's own business.  That's because business will mind America.  Business interests own America.  When you see us try engaging in foreign policy... it is to protect our private businesses and industries.\n\nNationalism was superceded by big business a long time ago.\n\nIs this a bad  thing?  Sometimes yes and sometimes no.  It depends on the scenario.
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Oh boy! Im glad you broke the ice! This has been bothering me too! Right now until the elections are over,nothing will be done. They are all focused on campaigning and basically looking good.Half of them are spending 3 times as much just commercializing themselves and If they get into office they are only going to make 1 times worth of the cost they spent out! I dont mind people coming to my country BUT they need to do things and respect the country like an american citizen.Dont misconstrue,they can still cherish and keep their respects to their own heritage. But they dont need to look at me funny when i put my american flag up by my front door!!!They need to learn our language,just like we do in their country. THEY NEED TO PAY TAXES!!! Thats the part that really makes me mad there! And the majority of them sneaking in here are living off of our government!?! Now if they are here illegally and our government is signing them up for all kinds of welfare,they should be taxed from that! The whole reason people come here is for freedom and a better chance for a more meaningful life. You see them driving these beautiful cars around and the average hard working tax payer cant even afford it,and the tax payer deserves it! I have heard of local factories with thier employees having social security cards from the 1930's and the people who have those in their wallets dont look a day over 25! But i think something will give soon,we cant ignore it much longer. Its going to take a group other then the government to put something in action. Right now the government has too many wars,not enough eyes or money to keep it all under watch. These people should put america right beside the place in their hearts where they have a place for their own country,make a stand for whats right and fair,walk up to the offices and make their own selves leagal without threats! Our country is not a free ride,its a home to alot of different types of people. If you are here illegally,you are not being fair to us!
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Sounds like a bad idea to me too.  And I am a liberal.  Of course I didn't know we liberals wanted us to be more like France until I saw your email.  It kinda surprised me to hear that.  Gee you'd think I'd have known I wanted something like that.  All this time I thought I wanted us to be like we used to be, not like France is.  I thought I wanted stuff like the return of the constitutional writ of habeus corpus, and end to the build up of millions of dollars of new debt each month (mostly to China) which if you think about it is going to impose a heavy burden on the next generation, an end to divisiveness as preached by the current administration, a reasonable minimum wage, real action on illegal entry into our country, an end to our administration lying to us and the world in order to wage war, an end to spying on US citizens, and real support in the war on terrorism by supporting efforts in Afghanistan.\n\nHey, wait a minute!!  That isn't like France at all!!!  I get it now, you are just another person practicing divisiveness by blindly following a party line and making unfounded, untrue unresearched judgments against those you and your party disagree with.
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Seems to me that you pretty much hit the nail on the head.  Both parties have their scandals, their morons, and their self-righteous flag-toting extremists.  It is easy to complain when you aren't held accountable for the decision, so Bush-bashing is becoming more popular than ever.  The Democrats, being liberals in most regards, also have more division within their party.  Having said that, if it was up to some of the Republicans today, we'd still have blacks as slaves and women working only for the family.  What I'm saying is, both sides have their great minds and their fools, but historically the Democratic party has been more influencial and active in promoting equality.
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I honestly think liberals in general think government should be there to protect the weakest among us. While that is a noble goal, I think we can see from example that it rarely works out that way.  A good example is the so-called "Great Society".  Here we are in 2006, and poverty is still as big an issue as it was in the 1960's.  We could have handed every poor person in the country a check for a million dollars and spent less than the trillions of dollars we've wasted on failed government social programs.
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They just don't like what President Bush is doing right now with the War on Iraq,   They know that everything is going great with the economy, and that just drives them crazy.  Liberals seem to think more than act.
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It's classic "superiority complex"... we think we are better than you and we want to make you like us because we are better than you... \n\nWe don't care if you don't want to be like us, because we think you're stupid and just don't know any better...\n\nBut if you try to change our culture... well... our culture is superior to all others and any changes would make it worse.. \n\nThis is the philosophy of many modern day conservatives that support Bush... it clearly stems from ignorance..
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I think liberals have a valid point when they say that we have alienated some countries over Iraq, but most of those countries weren't really lining up to help us anyway. The prevailing attitude that you see with many liberals is that America's foreign policies are to blame for 9/11 and other terror attacks, and this is simply not true. The terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 were the same terrorist who attacked America several times during the Clinton administration, when Clinton went out of his way to be "the good guy" towards the islamic world. Foreign policy is not to blame. The terrorists simply hate the Israelis, and therefore, we are guilty by association.
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As a liberal, it's embarrasing to have people posting questions like this.\n\nLet's try to raise the level of the discourse.  Let the fundamentalist conservatives have Shiraz and his ilk and their hateful questions.  Liberals should be better than this.\n\nI'm no fan of Bush, but the Nazi comparisons just don't hold water, and they make us look as silly as those we oppose.
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THANK YOU.  I have experienced the very same thing in this forum.  It's the reason I mention the fact that I am a moderate Independent so often.  I'm tired of being labeled a left wing liberal because I don't agree with the ultra-conservative Republicans.  I'm not real fond of extremism in either camp, but lately I have disagreed with the Republican manner of handling this country.  Contrary to their beliefs that does NOT make me a freaking liberal.
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I agree with your general statement. I am a self-proclaimed democrat. However, I find that I agree with many republican political views. I wish that things weren't so black and white and people were more receptive to others views. I really feel badly when republicans say how they hate "liberal whiners" because even though I consider myself liberal, I'm not so liberal and open minded that my brains have fallen out. I can see when the democrat reps are in the wrong. I can admit when republicans may have a better idea. We all need to reach our hand out to each other and embrace our differences and also our similarities.
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This, unfortunately, is what the politics board has ALWAYS been. Now that the crass and crude here don't have candidates to insult, they turn on one another.\n\nThe shame of our nation: we have lost respect for opposing views. How will we ever stand together against terrorism, if we can't even be civil to one another?
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Seriously, that is one thing I noticed a long time ago about Republicans and part of what made me switch parties to democrat. \n\nThere seems to be this mentality in the Republican party to constantly blame ANYTHING or ANYBODY else you can for whatever downfall you see in the country at that moment.\n\nThat could be gays demoralizing our nation to those darn anti-patriot treasonist liberals. LOL
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You can count on me.  What happened in this country, that people haven't stood up against the Bastard of the U.S. (I mean President) LOOOOOOOOONG before now??!!!!  Why are we so complacent to let one of our own murder innocent people every single day??!!  Bring back the '60s, where we protested and actually stopped a war by doing so!!!  And bring back the '70s, where one Republican had the decency to say that there was a "cancer on the presidency", and another good Republican asked, "What did the president know, and when did he know it?"!!  LET US, DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN ALIKE, PUT AN END TO THE LIES, HYPOCRACY, MURDER, ILLEGALITIES, AND MADNESS OF THIS INSANE ADMINISTRATION!!!!!!!!
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Drew, that's because this aint your country alone! our forefathers fought and bled for America so that it would be a bastion of freedom and democracy and not some special interest or lobby group batter stick.\n\nDrew, opposing our policies doesn't mean we hate the US "so much", on the contrary, haven't you ever thought that this could mean we "love it" so much and are genuinly concerned about it's well-being? not only on the short run, but also on the LONG RUN!?\n\nI realy get frustrated when right wing or conservative (you choose) folks like you go around blasting us "peace-lovers" and calling us names just because we're opposing sending our boys over in harms way! \n\nDrew, we're all in the same boat, and because we are, i'ld advise you to try to see the world from many different angles and learn more about "the other".\n\nWe're all human beings and we musn't let our enemies decide who we must become, why let extremists make US become extremists like them? don't forget who you are!
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I do know what you mean! I hate it!!! I have always voted for who the I thought would be the best person for each election, not the best party. I have both lib & con points of views on different issues!!! What are they going to call me. Nothing in this world is just black or white and I don't understand people who feel the same way across the board on all the issues. Just be yourself, and ignore the fools who think everything should have a label !!!!!!!!!!
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I think the current administration has an agenda which doesn't care in the least what the average American citizen wants...their foreign policy is pretty much a gaurantee that people all over the world will be hating us for some time to come. And if that isn't bad enough, they appoint incompetent nincompoops to positions of authority like FEMA director, and they are loading down the Supreme Court with conservative justices who will help them shift this country towards a police state as they take away our civil liberties one a time 'for our own good'.