Why are liberals so smug and negative?
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OK break out your dictionary:\nliberal:\na-Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. \nb-Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. \n\nI am a liberal. I volunteer at food pantries and soup kitchens. I donate to Habitat for Humanity and the Salvation Army. Most of these groups are run by Christian organizations, although I don't consider them conservative.\n\nLet's define conservative:\na-Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.\nb-a supporter or advocate of traditional ideas and behavior\n\nWhich of these 2 definitions fits better with "helping your fellow man"? I think it fits better with liberalism, (Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, free from bigotry) not conservatism (tending to oppose change).\n\nThe reason "liberals" complained about Bush's Supreme Court picks is because they were afraid of what these people would do to the Constitution and Bill of Rights if given the chance.\n\nPick up a history book sometime. Remember who championed the Civil Rights movement? Kennedy - a liberal democrat. Who started Social Security? FDR - a liberal Democrat. Who started Habitat for Humanity? Jimmy Carter - a liberal Democrat. Notice a pattern here?
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how come people of all political stripes, left and right, have such a distorted view of the other?
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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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That is a very good question! I have wondered that my self. Be careful now, you know their gonna get mad. I feel I must walk on eggshells around those Libs. But I don't.
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because they are liberals !!!!! duh !
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Victim mentality.  Liberals have no interest in working hard.  They criticize those who do and expect them to be required to help those who are "less-fortunate".  Fortune comes from hard work, not from sitting on ones lazy a** expecting it from someone who actually DID work for it!
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Liberals get their information from the same sources that Conversatives get theirs.  However, liberals then ignore any facts that go against their pre-determined beliefs.\n\nThen, as you can see above, they feel the need to attack and insult anyone who disagrees.
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doesnt surprise me one bit.Liberals have no substance to their arguements..all they do is make statements to pander to emotions,they dont discuss logic because they lose those debates
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Gee that's funny, I throw bombs at liberals for fun, and my email is always open.  The day I become afraid of liberals, I pray someone in my family will run me down with their car.\n    Sadly, only one had emailed me, and as it turned out it was nothing but an intelligent respectful argument.  \n   So friend, allow me now to insult your factless whiny accusation.  You do not inevitably see it. That is somewhere on the scale of wishful thinking to downright lie.  So put the picture of Speaker Pelosi away, pull your pants up, and stop crying.  There are better ways to celebrate your election day afterglow isn't there?
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Liberals forget one very important thing. When you take tolerance to the level that people cannot say, do, think, believe, or want whatever they choose within the bounds of REASONABLE social law, it becomes intolerant. They think that only they are right, so if I believe something differant, I am imposing my beliefs on them, so I must give up my beliefs, forgetting that if they make me give up my beliefs, they are the ones being intolerant and imposing. That is why they are so selfish.
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Deep down inside liberals know that they are not loyal to their country, respectful of its institutions, and that Ann Coulter is right in her criticisms of liberals.  They listen to her to find out the truth, then run around in a tizzy telling each other we can't be as bad as she says we are.
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Liberals argue with their feelings and tend to ignore facts.\n\nExample:  You don't want poor people to go hungry do you? \n\nThey completely ignore the fact that most poor people are poor because of their own bad decisions (drugs, no education/vocational training, having kids out of wedlock, etc) and that supporting these people will only encourage them to continue to make bad decisions.
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Liberals want change.  You don't get change by being nice.
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When I disagree with liberals on this board, it's usually not from them being soft in the mellon, in fact, many are very bright.\n\nCertainly this person couldn't have been serious, could they?\n\nIf they were.....\n\nit's sorta of like suddenly forgetting how to fill your lungs with oxygen......
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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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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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Because they are jealous! Right-wingers (or repubs) are generally far less educated and less intellegent than the average liberal (left wingers). Repubs are very narrow sighted and look at things in black and white vision. Therefore they insult everything and everyone smarter and more sophisticated than themselves to make themselves feel more important than the stupid uneducated narrow minded folk that they are. Just like a bully in the third grade who is too dumb to know any better.