Why is "Liberal" a 4 letter word in America?
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I have yet to be tried and convicted for anything, Perfessor! I'm doin' the math here, it just ain't workin' for me... I think my calculator needs a new battery. AND by the way Perfessor, I'm as warm and fuzzy as the next guy (compassion rules, dude!). How 'bout them Mets? I'm ridin' the wave as long as I can before our traditional All Star Break collapse! Later, Perfessor!
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False.  Conservatives were successful in making "liberal" a dirty word.  Liberals did not fight back and let them get away with it.  Bush though has awakened a sleeping giant and liberals are starting to fight back.
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because too many americans watch TV.  Liberals would rather whine and point fingers and stomp their feet rather than put their brain to work and come up with solutions.
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The word "liberal" is being turned into a dirty word by right-wing republican wacko's such as Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Regan.  According to them, if someone breaks the law by jaywalking, they are a liberal.\nIf you appear unpatriotic, you are a liberal.\nIf you question the war, they say you are a liberal.\nIf you dissagree with the "republican" president, you are a liberal.\nThose listed above have gone as far as saying that if you as so much question the reasons for invading Iraq, you're not supporting the troops and you should be tried for treason.\nYes, I find it disturbing and so do a lot of other even minded people in America. \nIn spite of their good ratings on radio, Rush Limbaugh, Mitch Albom, Michael Regan and those like them, do not express the majority opinions of Americans.\nRemember, the Jerry Springer Show gets good ratings too.
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Here's a wikipedia article that can explain it better than I ever could. In summary, as far as I know, left is more liberal, right is more conservative.
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I think Americans get along with each other rather well compared to some developing countries.  This country needs both liberals and conservatives to keep both extremes honest and moderated.  Neither extreme is right all the time.
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I'm having a problem understanding the question - what exactly does "are you gree" mean?\n\nI guess it's not a surprise since liberals have been in charge of education in America for the last 50 years...
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The history (if not the spelling!) of the term OK is largely debated. Some claim its derivation from the Chocktaw affirmative okeh, the Greek ola kalla, the Latin hoc ille -- all historically verifiable usages -- amongst others. It is argued that the cause of the success of the term in the US (regardless of its origin) is due to a fad of using initialisms during the 1830s and '40s. This fad of initialisms (eg: "TGIF", "FYI", "DIY") even went so far as generating letter combinations of intentional misspellings; popular ones were: "K.G.," for "know go," "K.Y.," for "know yuse," and "O.W.," for "oll write". "O.K." naturally followed, standing for "oll korrect". "O.K." is the only one that survived through the years, thanks perhaps to the precedence of the aforementioned affirmatives, but more certainly to the sloganeering during the presidential election campaign of Martin Van Buren. Born in Kinderhook, New York, Van Buren was nicknamed "Old Kinderhook" -- echoing the "oll korrect" initialism -- early in his political career. "O.K." became the rallying cry of the Old Kinderhook Club, a political organization supporting Van Buren during the 1840 campaign. H. L. Mencken would later describe term as "the most shining and sucessful Americanism ever invented."
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Liberal meaning?  Huh?\n\nThere is no "political" meaning to those terms in education.\n\nWhat are you asking for?\n\nAutonomy is a huge "hidden" curriculum goal in education... we want kids to learn how to make decisions and be motivated to learn independently.\n\nRationality is another "hidden" curriculum goal in education... being able to think using the reality perceived by the senses and logical sequential reasoning.
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It is a reference to George W Bush's Middle initial.  "Dubya" is (sort of) a phonetic rendering of how the letter "W" is pronounced in Texas.
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I'm not an American, and the word 'Liberal' means very different things in many countries. For you it seems roughly synonymous with 'Democrat'. But let's give it a try...\n\nDon't know about Robert Byrd but I do know about David Duke.\n\nLast time I checked Thurgood Marshall was black and Ruth Baker Ginsberg was female. Johnson appointed Marshall and Clinton appointed Ginsberg.\n\nThe Democrats who filibustered in 1964 were all Southern, and at that time the Democratic party was very much a southern institution. I don't think many of those Democratic senators, or the people who voted for and supported them, would have described themselves as 'liberal'. Anyway, the Democrats still voted 153-96 in its favour.\n\nTed Kennedy - no comment.\n\nI bet you would find 'unkind name calling' equally prevalent on both sides. It's not good when either side does it, but there you are.\n\nI wouldn't know the Liberals that you know, and more importantly I wouldn't know the shopping alternatives in the community where you live, but I also think that the Democratic Party's position on 'outsourcing' is a little bit odd. I won't try to justify it here, except to say that I think you'll find a lot of Republicans who also have a similar attitude to outsourcing.\n\nAnyway, Wal-Mart is an American shop; I would bet that their percentage of foreign-made products is similar to that of many other chain stores.\n\nAs far as being pro-choice goes, I think you'll find that allowing women control over their own bodies is quite in keeping with the general Democratic agenda (in my personal opinion, a general humanist agenda). And I would like to imagine that you do not actually believe that the things that you list in that paragraph are not worthy causes, so the comparison does not really bear further consideration.
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Why is a liberal labeled as such?  A liberal wants to do away with the 2nd Amendment, and limit how average citizens can protect themselves and their property against criminals. Sounds limiting to me, instead of how the word is supposed to mean.
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Sounds pretty good to me, that must be why I'm a liberal.\n\nhttp://www.m-w.com/dictionary/liberalism
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Liberalism is a disease.
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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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Marifa5970 don't get me your liberal politically correct bullsh*t. It's America, in America you speak English, and if people don't like it get out !!!
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Dumb question. You don't identify a liberal by smell, although you might find a redneck conservative with cowdung on his boots. As far as I'm concerned, politicians have misused the term liberal to scare people. They screwed up the meaning so much that it means nothing anymore.