What did liberal policies did LBJ, Reagan, and Clinton support or repeal?
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LBJ:  Very into social progams (called the Great Societies).  Started the War on Poverty or the War on Drugs.  Into taxes and unpopular wars.  Pro-civil rights\nReagan:  Started what is now called the Reagan Revolution, and reinvented conservativism.  Supported trickle down economics (called Reaganomics) in which the wealthiest get their taxes cut so they'll put it back into the economy.  Spent a lot of money on weapons building, and defeated communism.  Anti-death of babies due to abortion.\n\nClinton- pro-taxes, pro-abortion, anti-guns, anti-morals, pro-lying, loved Nixon's illegal activities (and copied many :)).  Came up with the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy in the military, allowing gay people as long as they weren't openly gay.  He screwed up when he asked Congress to pass DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), legally defining marriage as something between a man and a woman.
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of course they were.\nbut they were "liberals" over any other thing.\nand that was a very good thing.
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Liberalism is a disease.
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Liberals always lose in the short run, and always win in the long run. Look at every social issue that's ever divided the nation between liberal and conservative:\n\n1. (1776) Independence (liberal position) or remain a colony (conservative position)\n2. (1860) Keep slavery (conservative position) or abolish slavery (liberal position).\n3. (1910) Women's sufferage (liberal position) or votes for men only (conservative position).\n4. (1934) Establish social security (liberal position) or fight it (conservative position)\n5. (1965) Voting rights for blacks (liberal position) or keep Jim Crow (conservative position).\n\nWhy is it that EVERY CONSERVATIVE TODAY supports the Liberal positions of past decades? In the long run, when the great social issues are no longer issues, when the issue is no longer dividing us, it is because the conservatives admit they were wrong and support the liberal view. Always. Before that time, the liberals lose. But they never give up.
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Your argument is belied by cold, hard facts: Under Reagan's policies, the US had one of only two really decent growth periods since the mid sixties.\n\nAfter Reagan, we went into slow decline under Bush and Clinton, whose economic policies were largely the same; big, intrusive government controlling our economic choices.\n\nThen, for a short time, the Federal government was crippled by the struggle between Clinton and a Republican Congress, so that there was little new economic regulation and some very Reaganesque deregulation. This also turned out to be the only other period of significant growth. \n\nThen the second Bush took over, and our economic policies became, again, what they were under his father and under pre-Republican Clinton...and we've returned to the "slow decline".\n\nInstead of whining for MORE socialist violation of your choices, you should be arguing for an elimination of the government meddling we suffer under during EVERY period of economic decline.\n\nOh, and remember that unions ARE monopolies, and are bad for all concerned...not only for the companies, and the consumers (who are everyone), but even for workers.\n\nYour highway theory is sheer nonsense; understand that the Highway Fund, financed by the huge Federal gas tax, HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN SURPLUS. But Congress cheats, spending the "trust fund" surplus on things other than transportation. \n\nThe Reagan tax cuts...and anyone who doesn't know this reveals their ignorance of the topics at hand...actually INCREASED government revenue, by (along with deregulation) boosting economic growth, which became truly positive for the first time in nearly twenty years.\n\nNote, too, that you are apparently ignorant of how bad things were BEFORE Reagan. We were in a FAST economic decline throughout all of the seventies, and in fact most "experts" claimed the US could never recover, and was going to lose its position as the global economic power to the Soviet Union and Japan. Thanks to Reagan's reduction in government regulation and taxes, and his reduction of strife with the Soviets...allowing the inevitable failure of socialism to become the focus of the people of that evil empire...this did not happen.
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Ronald Reagan.  Unlike Clinton, he did not have 5 embassies blown up under his watch, murder American citizens in WACO and Ruby Ridge, did not have a destroyer nearly destroyed, did not have the trade center have a bomb detonaed, did not have the largest terrorist attack before 9/11 (oklahoma city), or sell nuclear missle technology to China.  Both had their scandales, with Reagan's having to do directly with the seperation of powers OF CONGRESS AND THE EXECUTIVE, VIA IRAN-CONTRA, whereas the scandal of Clinton invloved perjury in a court of law.  Though I do believe that Clinton, who was impeached, should have been convicted for perjury, I also believe that if he had demanded executive privalege, he should have been immune from testifying in that criminal proceeding.  \n\nReagan accomplished more internationally and nationally than Clinton.  Comparing the two, Reagan inheritated a worse economy than Clinton, and created a more profitable economy than Clinton.  Reagan also had to contend with a rival superpower in the Soviets, whereas Clinton did not.  Reagan dealt with the Imans successfully, as well as Libya and other tyrants.  Clinton's great success was Milosevich.  Comparring the defeat of Milo versus the USSr, Reagan accomplished more.\n\nThe economy of Reagan gave birth to the tertiary economy of the 90's, allowing the USA to leave behind the trappings of a primary and secondary economy.  Reagan grew the private sector, Clinton contained it.  In terms of inspiration, Reagan was greater.\n\nIn regard to popularity, Reagan stomped his opposition in both the electoral and popular votes.  Clinton never won more than 50% of the popular vote in either of his presidentail elections.  The presence of a 3rd party conservative candidate insured a split conservative vote, allowing an easy electoral win for Clinton.\n\nWhen Reagan left office, his party was stronger in the quantities of offices held in state and federal governments.  Reagan appointed morejustices, and thus exerted a greater influence on the judicial future of the nation.  When Clinton left office, Republicans held more governorships, state legislatures, as well as the senate and the house of representative.  In terms of delivering power to their party, Clinton was a total failure and Reagan a semi-success.\n\nAs those two weigh against each other, Reagan wins.  The other presidents, Bush I and Bush II, Ford, Nixon, and Carter, all rank behind these two.\n\nReagan\nClinton\nBush I\nBush II\nFord\nNixon\nCarter\n\nSpell check failed me, so please excuse the spelling errors.
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I started off voting Republican (Reagan in '84), switched to Democrat ('88-'96), voted Green (Nader in 2000) and voted for a Democrat (not Kerry) in 2004. I lean, surprisingly, to the right. I've always considered myself a liberal until I learned what "classic conservativism" is. I am more conservative than a lot of self-proclaimed conservatives. I believe in small government and reduced debt (thus the Clinton votes in '92 and '96) less government restrictions (Nader 2000), and a strong military (thus my vote against Kerry and Bush in '04), all "classic conservative" traits.\n\nThe terms liberal and conservative have little meaning anymore. True liberalism would be socialism or communism,and these parties are not as active in the US as they are in Europe.
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Liberals love you because they support the moral decay of American values.
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Bill Clinton answered that when he basically did nothing about the attack on the USS Cole. Liberals hate anything military (more or less)
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Because it didn't work.  Liberal=government control, deprives people of freedom and controlled economics loses to free markets every time.
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He succeeded Kennedy.  He has the policy of the Great Society.  from wikipedia.org.. The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, and removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Congress, at times augmenting or amending, rapidly enacted Johnson's recommendations. Millions of elderly people found succor through the 1965 Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act.
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The United States government is a prime example of a liberal democracy.
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Hard times can make a great President.  Lincoln is considered great because of what he accomplished in a very bad time.  He freed the slaves and brought the country back together.\n\nPolitics can color judgement on this too.  FDR is considered great by Democrats.  He certainly changed the way our nation operates.  And I would concede that he was a great wartime President.\n\nBut, being a conservative, I'm going to have to say that Reagan was the best.  He changed the world by bankrupting European communism.  He had some success in deregulating our country, and his economic policies never get enough credit for pulling our country out of the stagflation trap of the late 70's.
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The left and right ends of the political spectrum discribe people's basic philosopy of government.  \n\nMost people think of Democrats of being left center and liberals comfortably in the left and Socialists at the extreme left.  \n\nOn the right side, Republicans would be near the center, Conservatives comfortable in the right and libetarians at the far right.\n\nThe right tends to favor policies in which the role of the government is extremely limited, especially when it comes to promoting the general welfare of the populous, but at the same time spending adequate resouces for the common defense of the nation such as the military and the enforcement of international trade agreements.  Some issues that the Right traditionally cares about are:\n\n*  Minimize Taxes\n*  Minimize Social Welfare Programs (Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare)\n*  Minimize Regulations on Business and Individuals\n*  Elimination of Wealth Redistribution policies such as Progressive Taxation, Asset Based Taxation, and Taxation on Income gained through investment or inheritance.\n*  Minimize ability of citizens to sue the government or corporations, or other individuals based on laws designed to protect the environment, consumers, workers, women, minorities, etc....\n\nRecently, the Right has embraced other non traditional issues such as:\n\n* Increased government regulation of Abortion\n* Increased government regulation of End of Life decisions\n* Increased government regulation of Drug Usage\n* Increased Government funding of Christian religious groups, symbols and priorities.\n* Increased Government regulation of sexual pratices, indecent speech, homosexuality and unpatriotic behavior.\n* Decreased regulation of weapon ownership.\n* Support for public execution of certain criminals. \n* Reduction of constitutional gaurantees for accused criminals (Victims Rights)\n\nThe left tends to favor a stronger government with policies which benefit the general population at the expense of those in positions of power.  People on the left tend to believe that the government's primary function is to provide for the general welfare of its citizens paid for by taxing the populous.  Some issues that the left traditionally cares about are:  \n\n*  Generous funding of Social Programs (Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare)\n*  A progressive tax system which taxes wealthy individuals at a higher rate and taxes income earned by means other than work (Profits, Investment, Inheritence) higher than work income.\n*  Increased government regulation of employers, polluters, manufacturers, and individuals in the interests of protecting the populous\n*  Protecting Certain Freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, right to privacy, voting rights, rights of the accused, etc....\n\nRecently, the Left has embraced other non traditional issues such as:\n\n*  Legalization of Abortion\n*  Affirmative Action\n*  Increased regulation of weapon Ownership\n*  Less strict Immigration laws\n*  Opposition of certain wars\n*  Separation of Church and State
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Why do Democrats still blame Reagan for their's?
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jesus was a liberal.\nliberals fight and die in wars...they are patriots you won't corrupt.
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sure!! a liberal is someone like Abraham Lincoln and JFK and his brother and mlk and Gandhi and john Lennon and the people that assassinated them are all racist conservatives! and assassination is the only way they 'win' arguments! [oh and by the way the greatest liberal is Jesus Christ.... yeah that's right .... prove me wrong!]