Why are liberals always talking down to me?
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Perhaps it’s because this is the way you seem to present yourself in most of your comments and questions.\n\nOK, you asked for it so here it is…\n\nIn all fairness I went back and read over some of your questions and answers.  There doesn’t seem to be any middle ground to most of your Q&A’s.  On the surface they appear to swing very far to the right and you always pick answers which lean to right contributed by extreme conservatives, never giving liberals any credit for their points of view.\n\nI remember one of the first questions I read of yours was about supporting the troops and not the war.  Like most extreme right wingers, you expressed mistrust for the media and used euphemisms like “fail their mission” and “before their job is done.”   Unlike most Americans, many retired generals and returning Iraqi war veterans, you appear to support issues which only extreme right wingers still support.\n\nI also remember another question about you being called a bigot because of your views on immigration reform.  The Republican idea of criminalizing feeding or offering shelter to immigrants is an extreme right wing view and not upheld by bi-partisan politicians.\n\nQuestions like, “Would anyone object to a white history month?” and “What the F..is this?” don’t encourage an argument for you being too moderate.  Answers like, “You must have a lot of points to throw away to ask a stupid question like this,” and “you’re kidding, right” doesn’t go much toward your favor of being too enlightened.\n\nI’m not going to analyze each of your Q&A’s, but if you don’t have an answer, why do you post responses like the ones above?\n\nUnfortunately, and I’m guilty of this as well, this forum doesn’t have many middle of the road or undecided objective contributors.  We all seem to lean extremely one way or another and we all passionately defend our positions.\n\nModerates (on either side) don’t appear to hang around here too much (maybe they have more a life than we do).\n\nWhen I post questions and answers which indicate I’m a flaming liberal, which I do, I don’t mind being called a flaming liberal.  When you post questions and answers which appear to paint you as an extreme right wing conservative, you shouldn’t be offended when people assume you’re an extreme right wing conservative.\n\nAs long as no one attacks you personally, which I hope I’ve never done, and speak only to your opinions, you should just brush the comments off as being just another person’s opinion.  Many years ago when I was in college, a professor told me, “Opinions are merely a reflection of one’s beliefs and don’t hold water in a world based on reality.”  I’ve kept those words as a guide to how I respond to people’s opinions and I don’t even take my own opinions too seriously because I know my opinion matters not in the whole great scheme of things.\n\nI’m a firm believer that no controversy has a clear decisive correct answer; if it did, it wouldn’t be controversial.   If you want to know the truth, I believe in bi-partisanship and would love to see a President McCain with a Vice President Clinton (Hillary that is.)\n\nEven if I hadn’t been familiar with your posts or not taken the time to read some of your other posts, you could have taken the “perhaps” in the first sentence of my response just as it was meant, conjecture.  Like if you had asked, “Why won’t my car start?”  Without knowing a thing about your car I might have said, “Perhaps it’s your fuel pump,” which would have just been an uneducated guess, but you took the response personally by asking for examples.\n\nThe key to enjoying and using this forum here is to enjoy yourself and don’t take anything too seriously.\n\nPS:\nI’ve been called a moron and an a..hole for posting my beliefs.  When people call me names, I assume they have nothing intelligent to say and consider my opinion correct.
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As much as I'd like to appreciate the sentiments that you were wrong in attacking liberals, I have to think that your probably are one yourself, and that you're doing the same thing as all the conservative dingbats on here, just with less verbal abuse.\n\nEither that, or you are hardcore conservative, and you're just doing that to criticize us later on.\n\nI hope you aren't either case, and if I'm wrong, I truly apologize, but I just have this feeling.
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Wow, very few answers to your question and they obviously have no idea who I am, or what I stand for or where I come from. But man have they an opinion.\n\n Is it not funny that some admit never hearing of me but have are willing to make a judgment.\n\nSounds like most of your liberal party to me, Never listen to the facts, never study the facts, never live the moments, but come out with opinions and views and ready to move on with regulation and legislation based on a total uneducated source. \n\nWOW!
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The liberal guys are all hot because they're gay.  I've never met a smart liberal but, then again, they may be smart when compared to you.\n\nConservatives have better things to do than stare in the mirror or try to impress air-headed girls like you.  We're more than happy to have you hanging out with the liberal guys.  Please stay there.\n\nAnd while you're all hanging around being hot, why don't you all discuss why liberals refuse to allow those in poverty to better themselves and, instead, continue to try to keep them in poverty?  Whereas conservatives would like to give people in poverty the tools to help themselves permanently out of poverty, you liberals just want to give them handouts.  You liberals have been promising to help the impoverished for 40 years now.  40 years of failure.  But I guess spending your time insulting conservatives will help those in poverty.  Good work.
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As a conservative, I have to disagree. Liberals know all to well what free speech is. Haven't you noticed that they never shut the frig up?
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Are you kidding me? As a Yankee liberal living in a Southern Red state I can relate to what your saying. My only saving grace is that I work in a field where there is an abundance of liberals. When I'm with my liberal brethren, the air is sweeter, the sun is brighter, food is tastier...you get the idea. Some criminal republicans can be a downer at times trying to make you (liberals) feel as if we're some sort of subversive counter-culture when the opposite is the truth. Just tell your favorite repug. to put the tin-foil back on their head as FoxNews and newsmax. com is calling their name.
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I suppose it is ignorance or the lack of understanding of what the majority of Americans want for America. I've never seen a Liberal desire anything for all of America, unless it benefited them personally.  And I've never seen a Liberal seek anything that was morally wholesome and/or correct.\n\nSometimes we do not listen to the truth, because we don't want to hear it. Liberals and Democrats do not want our Conservative Republican President to succeed... (which not only makes our president look bad, but it makes America look bad.)\nand because of this, they bash the president, make up stuff...and spin their time stretching or changing the truth.\n\nMost answers to questions on this site, made by them, are "reportable" because they cannot argue their points without cursing or talking dirty. Very few appear educated, most are miss-informed, and all appear to have tunnel vision. (DESTROY and DISCREDIT the President and Republicans.)\n\nI never hear any positive directions or new ideas to help and support America. Just negativity from the left....\n\nBut then TRUTH is always a challenge to discredit.... maybe they just like a challenge!
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Liberals don't operate on the same value system as you and I.  They arrogantly assume that they are superior to others, and that only they are qualified to lead.  If they lose, they must blame something, ANYTHING else except themselves.
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The only real problem I have with liberals is that they complain about the way things are but I never hear what their alternate plan is that will make the country better.  It doesn't seem to matter what the President does, it is automatically criticized by the left, without offering any viable alternative  Think about this, if Clinton had been President during 9/11 I bet he would not have done a damn thing about it except to launch another missile strike against another milk factory in Africa.  Liberals don't seem to have a sense of history.  The Islamic terrorists have been attacking America and killing Americans since the 1980's.  We just finally had a President in office with the balls to stand up to those jerk offs.  I am answering this question with a question of my own.  If everything the conservative are doing is wrong, just what is this great plan the liberals have????  I am so glad John Kerry lost.  He would have to take a public opinon poll every time before he would make a decision about anything.  Every time we get a Democrat in the Presidency our taxes go up and the military is gutted, stripped to the bone, leaving us totally unprepared when we are attacked.  I don't want a nurse maid government that thinks it knows what is best for me and wants to set up more government "programs" to take care of every aspect of our lives.  That is not what the bill of rights and the Constitution is all about, never was.  Liberals seem to think that most of us are just to dumb to think for ourselves and run our own lives.  They are constantly trying to divide the country instead of uniting us, always talking about this group or that group that is "dis-infranchised"  Liberalisum is to close to socialisum for me.  I have talked to liberals that went to see that piece of crap movie Michal Moore made and actually think its the truth!!  Give me a break!
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Liberals do not like the "under God" line in it.  After all.... they think they are gods and do not want to be reminded that here is one and they are not him.  Then, they might have to humle themselves before Him.\n\nSue
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Don't be sad. It makes me laugh when people throw the word "liberal" around like it's an insult. "You...you...LIBERAL, you." Not quite on par with calling someone a m*therf*cker, is it?
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As liberals have told you time and again, they are better than you. You can't tell them that the Emperor has no clothes they will attack you as they always do. They put forth their human shields to avoid ridicule and won't get dirty in the Arena of ideas because Liberals are selective in which venue they operate. Hilary won't go on Fox for example.Teddy won't either. Heretics like us are sons of satan to them. When you argue, let them cuss first, that is an indication that you bested them. LOL
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Depends on the time and day.  You get some ardent left wingers posting here as well.  In true form, some conservatives accuse Y! Answers as being controlled by liberals, because they find themselves in the minority.  Same shtick they pull against the "liberal media" despite the popularity of Rush, Faux News, The National Review, and the Washington Times.  Helps them suppress those voices even more so, in an inane attempt to "balance the discourse".\n\nHowever, there are vehement wackos on both sides, and it's easy to get sucked into the rancor when someone asks a particularly loaded, insulting question.
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because liberalism is a mental disorder.\n\n"a twisted mind twists everything."
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First of all it's "reel off" not "real off" \n\nThe reason liberals go off subject or resort to name calling is because they cannot win an argument with facts. Also most liberals are seething with hatred and have lost the ability to debate altogether.\n\nAs you can see, the responses above are excellent examples of my point.
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For the same reason that libs do the same.  It is all just a game.  Think of it like an orange that they pass back and forth....keeping us distracted and divided against the real threat that they both pose.
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I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "SOME".  Some of any group will just talk trash, liberal or conservative.  It's what people do.  You probably just notice liberals more because you know that crazy, irrational conservatives aren't representative, because you're a conservative and you don't think you're irrational.  It's pretty classic prejudice.\nI really think civil discourse is as possible as it ever was.  You just have to wade through lots of jibberish to find it.  I like to remind myself that people have reasons for thinking the way they do.  It helps me differentiate what's a good argument from what's a bad.  When someone acts like one side is completely unreasonable, then that person generally has a bad argument.  But when someone thoughtfully discusses opinions in a respectful manner, that person is usually using good arguments.  Because they don't have to defend with emotion.