why do liberals care more about snails, rivers, and trees, than they do unborn children?
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Usually liberals are people who have been so hurt by other people that they completely give up on reality and try to stop the hurt by controlling everything everybody does. And even then they can't love another person so they pour all their feelings on the little creatures of the forest - every one of them who would rip the throat out of the liberal if it ever found said liberal alone in the forest.\n\nLuckily for liberals they never actually go to the forest, this is how they manage to make sense of taking a SMALL piece of Alaska, a state half the size of the continental US, and FREAK OUT when you try to drill for oil there.\n\nThey're morons. And Hillary Clinton is their new God.
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Besides many politicians' power lust, 2 general sides, and a few "odd" issues contribute.  Less minor issues like the war, abortion, labor unions, education, and old-fasioned straight ticket voters are all things I would lump into "values voters" for the purpose of this discussion.  They generally decide canidates based on how they will affect just one issue that they see as most important.  But the real culprit is a thing called WORLDVIEW, and there are two major ones that are clashing for control right now.  One, the Conservatives and the other, Liberals (not to be confused with Conservatives and Liberals in Europe).  Conservatives TEND to believe in old absolutes(however sometimes changing a rule is good), and the Liberals TEND to want to move away from the way things have always been done(but sometimes we do need to leave things be).  TO some this might sound trivial, but it involves issues of life and death.  For instance; Liberal thought on life and death says no death penalty, yes to abortion and assisted suicide.  Conservatives say yes to the death penalty, no to abortion and assisted suicide.  If those issues don't get people polorized, then how about tax issues?  \nI won't go into details there, but now I come out with the real deal:  The reason we don't see nearly as much cross-the-party-line cooperation is the prevelence of RELATIVISM:  That is, "whatever I think is right."  THis means that new-schoolers, (liberals) see issues however it pleases them, but ABSOLUTISTS (conservatives) can't leave thier long-established values behind to pursue whatever they want.  We are fast approaching a time when most Relativists will have NO common ground with absolutists.  If Relativism continues to gain hold with society, we will have no basis for self-control.  If I want to kill you, thats OK, because thats what I see as best for me.  If I want to lie and steal from you, thats OK because thats right for me.  And once people say that, there is no reasoning with them.  There is no way a relativist and someone who believes in trascendent values can cooperate under most circumstances.  That is the cause of this polorization.  If you think I'm nuts because you are a relativist, then you just proved my point: there is no way you can agree with me without changing your worldview.
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Because liberals have so much love to give to everybody. They're sort of like Michael Jackson, in that they try to give it to the wrong people. So well intentioned, yet so misunderstood.\n\nWhere as conservatives rely too much on rational thinking to form opinions. Curse this brain of mine! Curse it!
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We liberals care about BOTH!!  Sadly, the right care about neither.  Only oil.
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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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I have heard two things that are laughable\n1. liberals only care about "I"\n2. liberals are out for money\n\nBut yet conservatives complain about tax and spend liberals? If we only cared our ourselves and money... wouldn't we cut taxes and keep more money for ourselves... the VAST majority of liberals are not on social programs... so we get nothing out of many of the programs we support?\n\nAnyway... to me the difference is:\n\nLiberals think the government can make a difference and help people. Give people a hand if they need it... maybe taxes will be a little higher, but if it helps someone, then it's worth it... liberals tend to dislike legislating morality...\n\nConservatives (traditionally, not so sure about Bush and Co.) think that less government is better and if you can't take care of yourself.. oh well... it's your own fault... the only thing government should do is protect the people... and you can't spend too much on weapons... conservatives lean toward legislating the morality of traditional Christian values...
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Danielcra, the right winger, is a prime example of that stunted thinking.  \n\nHe wrote that we care more about trees and birds than humans, as if trees and birds are not as important as human life.  \n\nHe and the other idiots do not realize that without birds and more importantly trees - humans will be extinct too.  \n\nIt is this narrow imbecilian thinking that is destroying the environment and may even encourage new or more virulent diseases as natural controllers/predators die off.
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"They" are called "liberals because their scope of concern expands to include everyone (Jesus was one of the first Liberals). Most liberals even have compassion for jerrks like you too!
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Why is that a liberal can't be moral? Everybody has different sets of morals and beliefs, that doesn't make anyone morally inferior. Conservatives do care about the people and that is why they use churchs to create programs to help the poor. I'm not a liberal or conservative but don't like the political stereotypes people give to liberals and conservatives.
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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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Because liberals never want the people to have their way, that is why we have roe vs. wade and other bad cases.  They want judges to decide for us.  Good luck with that in Taxachusetts.
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Yes, great question. Listen to the heartless liberals whine that the baby is not a baby it's a fetus, that makes it better right? \n\nIt is murder!!  If there is no God and we are to believe in evolution then that "fetus" is a baby because it would evolve into such.\n\nLiberals are the biggest hypocrites on the planet, that's why they are the biggest losers on the planet. If you read half their posts you can see that they are the most uneducated of us and we even have a spell check and they are to lazy (read welfare) to use it. \n\nPerhaps the reason they NEED abortions is the lack of self control and responsibility, or maybe they just hate themselves so much they just don't want to bring another lib into the world, if that's the case Thanks. \n\nBut liberals, being the blame others for our behavior crowd, as displayed by battousai, say it's the Christians that get abortions??????\n\nAnd still others answered saying it's better to murder the child than to let it grow up being neglected.\n \nSeems to me that if we taught, as parents, our children responsibility, morals, and values we would have no need for abortions except in extreme measures. \n\nBut oh I forgot, you libs don't believe in responsibility, morals or values.  Cuts into that partying, sex, and drugs time.\n\nLiberals make me sick!!!
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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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Because liberals like to have sex.
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ew. liberals in control? our country is going down fast. And even better... we get to kill unborn babies... what could be better than that..? how about you use birthcontrol... its not as cruel to the unborn fetus. For loving EVERYONE and treating EVERYONE equal... the liberals sure forget the rights of the unborn, helpless babies.
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Many people go into news broadcasting to try to change the world to make it a better place.  By definition, liberals want change and conservatives don't.
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People in rural areas tend to have less education and they tend to stick to old ideas. Republicans just now how to appeal to these kinds of people. Liberals tend to use logic to analyze the situation rather then following their emotions. In cities there are a lot of ideas thrown at you allowing you to look at things from a different perspective from different people, which is why liberals tend to support diversity and equality.