what do they mean by the phrase in polotics     leftist?
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Assume you mean word (not phrase) 'leftist'.\n\nLeftist = someone on the left side of the political spectrum; generally socialist-leaning.\n\nLeftist tend to embrace: environmentalism, higher spending (although the right has blown that out of the water recently), welfare...
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You are either with us are against us! you dont believe in that do you? thats the same line we've fallen for for centuries. stalin, mao, cheng, wassalib, hitler, poipot, melosovic, il & leone have all used that to commit terrible things while in power. heres another slogan for ya, 'those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit attrocities'.
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The term "Left-Wing" originates from the French Revolution, when liberal deputies from the Third Estate generally sat to the left of the president's chair, a habit which began in the Estates General of 1789. The nobility, members of the Second Estate, generally sat to the right. It is still the tradition in the French Assemblée Nationale for the representatives to be sat left-to-right (relative to the Assemblée president) according to their political alignment.\n\nAs this original reference became obsolete, the meaning of the term has changed, and is now used to denote a broad variety of political philosophies and principles. In contemporary Western political discourse, the term is most often used to describe forms of socialism, social democracy, or, in the sense in which the term is understood in the United States, liberalism.\n\nThe left-wing attribution is very broadly employed as a political descriptor, and a single definition is elusive. The use of the phrase in the democratic West is quite distinct from the usage in most Communist states - where the term has connotations associated with Bukharin and the democratization of all human activities (see also deviationism).\n\nCommunism, as well as the Marxist philosophy that many base it on, and most currents of traditional anarchism are often considered to be radical forms of left-wing politics. Many left-wingers reject any association with communism or anarchism. Others say that those who don't follow strict socialist or communist philosophies can't possibly be leftists.\n\nThe left is often seen to include secularism (that is, separation between state and religion), as in the United States, India, the Middle East, and in many Catholic countries, although religion and left-wing politics have at times been allied historically, such as in the U.S. civil rights movement, or in the cases of liberation theology and Christian socialism.\n\nPeter Singer (Princeton University, Professor of Philosophy) defines "the left" as being those who place minimizing suffering above other moral imperatives, such as tradition or rights.\n\nIn politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply The Right, are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum often associated with any of several strains of conservatism, the religious right, and areas of classical liberalism, or simply the opposite of left-wing politics. In some contexts, the term right-wing also can include authoritarian nationalism, but that is generally considered part of the far right, which this article does not cover in any great detail.\n\nThe term comes originally from the legislative seating arrangement during the French Revolution, when monarchists who supported the Ancien Régime were commonly referred to as rightists because they sat on the right side of successive legislative assemblies.\n\nAs this original reference became obsolete, the meaning of the term has changed as appropriate to the spectrum of ideas and stances being compared, and the point of view of the speaker. In recent times, the term almost always includes some forms of conservatism.\n\nSome consider the political Right to include those forms of liberalism that emphasize the free market more than egalitarianism in wealth (formerly regarded as the Left), but many free-market advocates, including most libertarians, share certain political ideologies with the left-wing and conceive of a two-dimensional political spectrum that they say more accurately portrays their political position.[1] (See Nolan chart, Pournelle Chart). Many anarchists (including libertarian socialists) also avoid placing themselves on the classic political spectrum.\n\nIn the 20th century, outside the United States (where capitalism was always supported by many politicians and intellectuals), the most notable distinction between left and right was in economic policy. The right advanced capitalism, whereas the left advocated socialism (often dem
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good question. as it depends upon what part of the liberal front they are addressing. or at any given moment.  to one group they say pull out, to another they say add more troops, and yet to another they say a gradual exit.. which one do you think they really mean?  hard to say guess it depends on what day it is..
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Do you even know what the words 'communist' and 'regime'  mean?
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Communism = From each, according to ability.  To each, according to need. (Everyone works; he who needs, gets.)\n\nSocialism = From each, according to ability.  To each, according to deeds. (Everyone works, he who works harder or better or smarter gets more)
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ugh, i just answered this to find you removed it, here I go again.\n\nActually the word 'socialist' better describes todays 'democrats'.  People can still have liberal ideals without having them freakishly to the left of reality.\n\nLiberals are basically the ones who think a world wide utopia is possible if they 'live and let live'.  They are unable to mentally comprehend the fact that there are others in this world who do not tolerate views different than theirs.  Liberals, for some reason, are hypocritical in most of their thinking.  For instance, since they don't like George W. Bush, they think that a man who gassed to death over 30 thousand of his countries innocent people should be left in power, and defend the lives of people on death row, who were convicted of the most heinous crimes known to man.  Yet liberals for some reason think it is OK for a mother to kill a child.  \n\nLiberals also say it is wrong to discriminate by race/ religion (as do conservatives), but then the liberals turn around and make laws that give benifits to some, and not all, such as 'affirmative action'.  If that is not hypocrocy, what is?\n\nBasically Socialists, Liberals, Democrats, all stand for the same things.  They want to take businesses away from the ones who built them, and give them to the government to run, and give out free stuff to everyone.  What they fail to realize is that over time, the few who are working to support everyone else, will get tired of doing all the work, and the work will gradually decline, thus leading less to distribute.  Eventually we will be sitting in bread lines, waiting for our government rations, because it doesn't matter how hard you work, you will get the same amount of bread as the lazy democrat in line next to you.
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It's coup d'etat and it literally means to "overthrow the state" - like a revolution.\n\nSo if people use it in conversation - it could mean that you've really accomplished something really difficult, against obstacles.
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Have you ever looked up the word liberal?\n\nAdjective\n\na. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. b. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. c. Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism. d. Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. \n\na. Tending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor. b. Generous in amount; ample: a liberal serving of potatoes. \n\nNot strict or literal; loose or approximate: a liberal translation. \n\nOf, relating to, or based on the traditional arts and sciences of a college or university curriculum: a liberal education. \n\na. Archaic Permissible or appropriate for a person of free birth; befitting a lady or gentleman. b. Obsolete Morally unrestrained; licentious. \n\nnoun. \n\n\nA person with liberal ideas or opinions. \n\nLiberal A member of a Liberal political party. \n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n[Middle English, generous, from Old French, from Latin lberlis, from lber, free; see leudh- in Indo-European roots.]\n\nThis doesn't seem like the definition of people hell bent on destruction does it?\n\nLibers are in fact looking for ways to move America forward, to bring new ideas to peoples conciousness and to tackle problems at the core rather than putting forward knee jerk solutions to attack the symptoms.\n\nNote that liberals are free from bigotry and not guided by dogma. That is why I'm proud to be a liberal.\n\nWhat about you?
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V\n\n"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vangquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.\n\nThe only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
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The phrase is:\n\n"Those who can, do; those who can't, teach."
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The way you have defined it, I don't think there are any "hardcore leftist- Liberals" anymore.\n\nIt sounds more like what you're trying to do is to strawman anyone who is not like you into supporting all those bizarre positions.
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1. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. \nFavoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. \nOf, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism. \nLiberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. \n\nTending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor. \nGenerous in amount; ample: a liberal serving of potatoes. \nNot strict or literal; loose or approximate: a liberal translation. \nOf, relating to, or based on the traditional arts and sciences of a college or university curriculum: a liberal education.
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It means a quotation or saying
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political correctness= as not to offend\n\npolitical correctness=when you do offend, you say your sorry!
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2 words. Political Correctness.\n   To my British cousins-the sooner you crush your left, and vote them out of your government, the sooner you eliminate the unworkable Utopian pipe dream that allows those who hate you to live in your great nation.  Not only to live, but to collect welfare until the day they get the phone call to strap on a dynamite belt and waltz into a school.
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All the above answers seem to have been done by a machine translation. Taking into account the idiom, I'd say it's something like "Asi es la mala suerte para nosotros, los falsos disenadores."