Why are conservative so bitter towards liberals?
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Conservatives are not only bitter towards Democrats, but they’re angry at them.  They really thought they had a plan when they manipulated the Florida elections in their direction only to find out their leaders didn’t have clue on how to run this country.\n\nIn June of 2001 Cheney requested a study of Iraqi oil fields and began planning his attack on Iraq three months before 9/11.  The plan for the attack was linked to boosting the profits Halliburton who without a war doesn’t make nearly the money they make during peace.\n\nAlmost immediately after taking office, the economy started going south and unemployment went from a record low to a record high.  Then the administration ignored warnings from the CIA and FBI about a planned attack on the US which allowed 9/11 to happen. \n\nFor seven minutes, while thousand of Americans were dying, their wonderful leader sat mouthing the words to a children’s book.  Bush said he didn’t want to upset the children.  I’m not the brightest bulb on the tree, but couldn’t he have said, “Boys and Girls Uncle George has to take an important phone call.”\n\nThe blundering and mishandling of America spiraled out of control. Ignoring all the options, Bush started bombing Afghanistan.   Bombing Afghanistan was like blowing up a house to catch a rat; the house is destroyed, but the rat simply runs down another hole.  Now the battle front in Afghanistan is warming up again. \n\nUsing a mandate built on patriotism and a sense of duty, Congress enacted the Patriot Act which was a tool for conservatives to stifle American liberties.  Liberties which the Democratic Party still believes should exist for all Americans.  \n\nIn an attempt to divert attention from his failures on the domestic front as well as his inability to catch Osama, Bush and Cheney ordered the CIA to leak misinformation about Iraq.  When Bush was asked about these leaks, he deplored them.\n\nBush used this misinformation to form a coalition of Democrats, Republicans and countries from around the world who believed his lies and deceptions about weapons of mass destruction.  Not yet completing our mission in Afghanistan, Bush started the war in Iraq.\n\nIn the meantime, America’s economy plummeted and our national surplus which he had inherited from his predecessor became an ever growing deficit.   Domestic issues which both parties agreed needed to be addressed fell to the floor.  Healthcare which President Clinton fought so hard for was abandoned; school districts around the country were closed and caught up in court battles, poverty grew, crime rose and all the while American soldiers were being killed because he lied to the American public.\n\nIn an attempt to line the pockets of his corporate friends, he attempted to privatize Social Security which would have left thousand of Americans in a black hole.\n\nHis closest buddies, “Kenny boy” of Enron and Tom DeLay are crooks; my mother told me, “You are the company you keep.”  Donald Rumsfeld is a failure and what happened to Colin Powell?\n\nFor the eight years former President Clinton was in office, Republicans refused to join the call for bi-partisanship and used their time in office to do their best to discredit the Clinton administration.   Unable to discredit Clinton on his political achievements, they began attacking Mrs. Clinton and former President Clinton’s personal life.\n\nThese days we hear no calls for bi-partisanship.\n\nThey appointed a “special prosecutor” and began one of the most deplorable witch hunts in American history.  In the end and millions of dollars later, White Water was nothing more than a Republican whitewash and yes they caught former President Clinton with his pants down.  He lied, but his lies didn’t cost this country thousands of lives.\n\nRepublicans refuse to acknowledge the facts and statistics of the Clinton White House successes, but those achievements are already forever embedded in the history of our country.\n
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because liberalism is a mental disorder.\n\n"a twisted mind twists everything."
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The problem with liberals is they don't have a cohesive philosophy.  They are often well meaning, but they have this childlike belief that everything could be perfect if we could just legislate this a bit more, forbid that, restrict this..... in short, liberals always think they're just a law or two away from creating perfection.\n\nWhat they end up with is a nightmare, and then they get frustrated that all their work seems to be accomplishing nothing.  So, as I stated at the outset, their lack of a clear vision dooms them to failure, and this makes them whiny and petulant.\n\nLet's take some examples from a recent vacation I took to Turkey.   The hotel's restaurant had a small bar.  One of the guys working there must have been about 15.  Liberals would be agast:  "Oh no, you can't have this!  He is too young to work, he can't be serving alcohol......"\n\nThere are often two sides to everything, but in this case, the boy came from a poor family (that's the norm in many overseas countries; wealth is the exception).  He was happy to work a few hours a day.  It helped his family, made everyone in his family happier because they weren't so stressed about money, gave him some valuable work experience, and actually improved his grades at school because now he could see what the working world was like, and this gave him the impetus to make plans for the future.\n\nImagine the same kid in the U.S.  He's sitting at home, bored, playing Play Station and getting fat through zero physical activity.  His grades are in the dumpster because he has no ambition.  Since he has no first hand knowledge of the working world, studying seems like a big waste.  "What am I ever gonna need math for?" is a common refrain.  Well, the Turkish boy knew the answer to that, and he'd probably put the American boy to shame.\n\nRemember this Ronald Reagan quote:  "The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."\n\nLiberals have this philosophy of "moral equivalency".  If Reagan had fallen into that trap, he could never have summoned the moral indignation and resolve to fight Communism.\n\nLiberals, especially the ACLU set, don't realize society can't function when everything is controversial; people have to agree on some basic ideas and values.  When everyone can whine about every possible thing that doesn't suit his or her own selfish preferences, you are just creating chaos.  Society can't function like this.  It's like taking fabric and pulling it in every possible direction; it's going to unravel.  There is nothing holding to together.\n\nSo, liberals hate America because, in their minds, we can never do anything good enough.  Take the Afghanistan + Iraq situation:  we are liberating millions of people from tyranny, giving women a chance to live normal lives where they can vote, work, and be educated.  Do liberals ever bring up these points?  No.  Because they only look at the negative.\n\nThat in a nutshell is why liberals hate America.  No matter what we do, they can always find the black cloud but never the silver lining.
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From what I have seen, liberals are a lot more emotional than conservatives. They seem to get angry a lot easier. I also agree with what tony said. Especially the part about changing their ways when they get out on their own. It reminds me of a quote from Winston Churchill, "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
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No, I am a liberal and that is not one. Besides, you conservatives have been asking the same question attacking another group(Liberals) all the time. Can you try and stop being hypocritical?
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Liberals are really looney::: especially in YOUR country, where they seem to run the show over in the UK and have the conservative voices muffled with their constant screaming "RACIST!!!, RACIST!!"  Those PC fools are a joke.\nTHey have a temper tantrum here in America too when they hear opposing views because they are so damn self-righteous and childish.\nTheir world views are childish too: a la la land of sorts where eveyone is celebrated for being different and lives in peace and harmony-- sadly enough they don't seem to mind when white civilians get harmed because of racial hatred, because anyone who is different can do no wrong and they deep down feel that we deserve it.\nThey are traitors to the third degree and should be temporarily jailed for treason until they regain their sanity.
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I've been to war & lost friends, & I like the guy. What's he ever done to any of you. Why is your rhetoric always so hateful? Are you so bitter as that? Run a moderate already. Swing voters won't vote for a liberal. Conservatives never liked how liberal Bush was, but they wanted to win so compromised on someone that could appeal to the middle. Why is this always so advesarial though? Why can't people have arguments on reason & logic & do so with mutual respect. You can dislike everything about the President, but grow up alreay with the tone & behavior, why do you think you can't break into the rest of the country.
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Some conservatives are clueless, Here on Y-answers they're not hard to pick out. They tend to regurgitate the party line passed on from generations of conservative drunk or mentally unbalanced relatives spewing their warped ideas of what liberals actually are. Think Archie Bunker, remember him!? The cons refuse to accept responsibility for anything this criminal administration has done, opting rather to point the finger at our greatest modern day Pres. WJ Cliton. So between generations of conservative families, Rush, Ann Coutlter, and the "fair and balanced" FoxNEws channel they almost have no shot at all to learn to think for themselves, kind of sad really.
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Yeah I know whatcha mean, and the Democrats wonder why they can't regain Congress at all.\n\nI mean hello telling people they are stupid for holding Pro-Life opinions and stuff like that does not cut it.\n\nGranted no a Conservative like me is not gonna change mind on a whole lot of things but im willing to at least respect a Liberal if he/she is willing to be kind with disagreements and so forth.\n\nFor instance when Reagan was President oh yeah Tip O'Neill did have a lot of ideas that were not exactly favored by Republicans but he showed Respect for Reagan and actually nicely referred to Reagan as the best Enemy he ever had.\n\nHenceforth although he unfortunately disagreed with Reagan on a lot of things he most certainly respected Reagan.\n\nI wish other Liberals would follow Tip O'Neill's example.
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Conservatives are typically protection-minded, as in typically protective of the country and our way of life. Liberals tend to do a lot of america-bashing, they hate this, they hate that, they have a 'favorite minority of the month' kind of thing, they care more about starving kids somewhere else than starving kids in america, that kind of thing...their focus is more on 'the poor' and some other country than on fixing america....
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i cant stand liberal people. \n\nSave the environment burn tree huggers instead of gas.
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Because they feel that they are the only people who work for a living and have morals.  The reality is that many who preach Conservative values have had mommy and daddy pay for their education, apartments, cars, etc...  They are often raised in families with money and receive large inheritances to help start businesses (ex: Dubbuya) and forget that there are middle and working class folks who bust their backs everyday to pay bills.\nIt's easy for Conservatives to criticize people that are not born with silver spoons in their mouths!\nOn moral values- Rush Limbaugh and viagra, Tom Delay and his fine crew, and Rev Jimmy Swaggart and his sex scandal...  Need I say more!
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I understand your point.  I think it has to do with the fact that people are intensely stuck into categorizing. If a person considers him or herself to be liberal. They will normally take a harsh view on a conservative question that is not asked in a meaningful way. Or the other way, if a liberal question starts off with "why did bush kill our soldiers?" you will get an angry response from the right. That is why I asked the question that you answered. We have always been a society of labels. As far back as this countries founding there were labels on people for their political views or origin. Today it just takes an ever so hateful view and ignorance.
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Ultra-right wingers (not all conservatives) live in the past.  The ideal right-wingnut's world is 1950, with nuclear/military proliferation, women largely stuck at home baking pot roasts and popping out kids, and minorities keeping their place.\n\nThey're also angry hatemongers, always going for the jugular in the most inane, childish fashion.  Look at how popular Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Phyllis Schafly all are with the conservatives.  Combine these two facets and you've got a bunch of sore losers whose only delight is in rehashing old foes, when it's essentially pointless.\n\nMy $.02
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The right/left political divide has become so exaggerated these days that it is downright silly.  At the extreme ends of both sides you will find bigoted fools.\n\nWe are all humans, not conservatives nor liberals.  Our humanity is what is important not our political agenda.\n\nEven though they are all too often portrayed as such in the cutthroat business of getting elected, conservatives and liberals are not enemies.  We need to open our minds to the fact that the other side might have a good idea and thank them for it instead of characterising politics as an endless war of rhetoric.  \n\nIts foolish to break the world down into simple dichotomies.  It prevents seeing the real complexity of the world.  But then again thats what the people who have aspirations of power want.  On both sides.\n\nPersonally I think that its important to remember that there are more than two ways to solve any problem and that we can all learn from our percieved enemies.
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probably the same reason the right wingers hate everything else.\n\ndemocrats suck and republicans blow. thats how it works.
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Slow down slim.\nThey think the same about us.\nThey are like rats they are more scared of us then we are of them.\nThey get angry because they think "I'm liberal, I'm enlightened! why can't those brutish conservatives realize...."\nthey thik that being liberal makes them smart when in reality it is being smart that makes you conservative.