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Originally Posted by shinerbock
On a side note, liberalism doesn't give everyone the freedom to do whatever they want. Liberal ideology decides that the government should invest your money for you. They decide that your money should go to public welfare causes, regardless of moral objection to them. Many of them want to restrict or eliminate my access to firearms. They think that since me or you have plenty of money, we should have to turn over more of that money to the government than other people are required to. Just a few of the reasons I'm a conservative.
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I agree with what KSig RC said, and I'll add that you are painting with way too broad a brush here. What you say may describe some (many) liberals, but recourse to any dictionary shows it to be a severe overgeneralization. I checked quite a few dictionaries, including Mirriam-Webster Collegiate, which defines liberalism as:
a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties.
and the Random House Unabridged, which defines liberalism as:
political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties.
You are not describing the actual definition of liberalism. You are describing the connotation that many "conservatives" have worked hard over the last few decades to wrap the word in, admittedly readily aided by many liberals.
Just part of the reason why I think "liberal" and "conservative" have become almost meaningless with regard to really understanding politics. The Mad Hatter has taken them and declared them to mean whatever he says they mean.
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