Not to be confused with liberalism.
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I asked this question, too.  Here are the responses I received.
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I am "moraless" a liberal, I suppose.  Oh well, at least I know how to write properly. Heh.
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Ask France.  Assuming you and they still speak French.\n\nRoch cop:  Liberals have trouble with what the definitions of is is, and apparently also was was.
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Don't call them Neo-Liberals just call them Socialist.
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Yes it is but if you want to piss off you teacher who is probably a liberal.  Some stupid liberals are pleased with themselves every time they attack America because liberals hate America.
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Liberals only think of the present and what they want now. They don't look at the big picture and consider what the consequences\nof their actions and demands will be further down the road.
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intillectual liberals? isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?
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False.  Conservatives were successful in making "liberal" a dirty word.  Liberals did not fight back and let them get away with it.  Bush though has awakened a sleeping giant and liberals are starting to fight back.
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It has nothing to do with liberals.  This was established a long time ago and it is an antiquated law.  But no one has the guts to change it.
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well that liberalism.liberalism is mental disorder you do worst thing to a person @ get a slap on the wrist by the justice system my boy the system is corrupt . we need a change
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Liberals live in the perfect world's within their own minds where there is a pot of gold at the end of each rainbow and a rainbow for each rain drop that falls. Where all Muslims are moderates and everyone egalitarian. Wouldn't it be great if the real world was that way? Obviously, it is not. However, and unfortunately, the liberals don't dare let the realities of the real world cloud their 'judgements' (they don't really make judgements -- they have preconceived ideas only) or their rhetoric and the rest of us must live with them and their ridiculous tendencies even while trying to make the world as pleasant and just for all as is possible.
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Liberals and thinking is an oxymoron
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Liberalism is coached in emotion rather than logic and rationalism.  The way you FEEL about something is more important than the facts surrounding an issue.  To a liberal 1000 people FEELING that something is bad trumps a single fact.\n\nWomen are emotional creatures by nature, culture, and biology.  So women would naturally be attracted to liberalism as a political group and a philosophy of life.
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Thank you for asking the question I signed up to ask - which, of course means that I cannot answer it. I can only point to your one sided responses and the decrease of separation between church and state for an answer. Liberalism USED to mean that you believed in open-minded exchange and the right of everyone to do what they chose as long as it did not hurt others or infringe on their inherent rights. To me, this just seems elementary to our country's founding. It may be called a de-moc-ra-cy. Socialism means we all give our money away to the government and they give it away equally to all. We have something called cap-it-al-ism. Both the idea of capitalism and liberalism can, believe me, co-exist. Some of our best capitalists (Warren Buffet, Bill Gates) are, indeed, liberals. And, in my opinion, quite moral and benevolent. So I have to beg the question again - when did the term "liberal" which used to be a smart, intellectual, open-minded person become derogatory?
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First, here's a quick definition of what liberalism means as used in America today: \n\n"American liberalism emphasizes mutual collaboration and consensus-building to solve political problems. A liberal in the United States is likely to favor institutions and political procedures that protect and empower the weak against aggression by the strong and guarantee individual freedom from restrictive social norms. Liberals encourage progressive taxation, minimum wages laws, anti-discrimination laws, and social programs."\n\nMost liberals associate with the Democratic party - Democrats tend to support these sorts of policies. However, not all Democrats are liberals - many are more moderate, and many fiscal conservatives - people who want to minimize government spending in general - have defected from the Republican party recently.\n\nAlso, many people with liberal views may not call themselves liberal - while many liberal views are strongly associated with churches, for example, a number of major churches in the U.S. associate with the Reupublican party due to its stance against abortion. Since the Republican party is currently strongly anti-liberal, many liberal stances have been adopted by the party through the term "compassionate conservativism," which permits the stance without association with the politically charged term "liberal."\n\nCommentators like Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reill have recently been involved in a general trend toward writing books which equate liberalism with terrorism, anti-american sentiment, and weakness - for this reason, the word is quite misunderstood now, something that might be apparent in the large amounts of hate present in some of the answers to your question.\n\nI hope this helps give an unbiased view of what liberals believe, and why the word is so politically sensitive right now.
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It's as simple as this.  Liberals feel that they are better able to spend money collectively for the good of a society than individuals are able to spend their own money for the good of society.  It is a mindset.  Liberals think society first at all costs and conservatives feel individual first.  On the outside the liberal side sounds better but to achieve their mindset they have to forcibly take from others (continuously higher taxes) which unless it's done by a government is generally called stealing.
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Liberals aren't organized enough to be communist.