Why is being liberal a bad thing?

[Anonymous]

Well, I am a fiscal liberal (welfare, safety net, good) and social conservative (abortion, death penalty, sexual promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, all wrong).
I don't really fit into that many circles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I am a fiscal liberal (welfare, safety net, good) and social conservative (abortion, death penalty, sexual promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, all wrong).
I don't really fit into that many circles.

Jesus Christ.

Not as an epithet, but as a model for your politics.

[Anonymous]

And Huckabee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And Huckabee.

Is Huck opposed to capital punishment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I am a fiscal liberal (welfare, safety net, good) and social conservative (abortion, death penalty, sexual promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, all wrong).
I don't really fit into that many circles.

Jesus Christ.

Not as an epithet, but as a model for your politics.

I am not a Christian, but Jesus was a great man, so I see that as a nice complement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I am a fiscal liberal (welfare, safety net, good) and social conservative (abortion, death penalty, sexual promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, all wrong).
I don't really fit into that many circles.

Jesus Christ.

Not as an epithet, but as a model for your politics.

I am not a Christian, but Jesus was a great man, so I see that as a nice complement.

As the PP, I am neither a Christian nor a believer, but I definitely meant it as a compliment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I am a fiscal liberal (welfare, safety net, good) and social conservative (abortion, death penalty, sexual promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, all wrong).
I don't really fit into that many circles.

Jesus Christ.

Not as an epithet, but as a model for your politics.

I am not a Christian, but Jesus was a great man, so I see that as a nice complement.

As the PP, I am neither a Christian nor a believer, but I definitely meant it as a compliment.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Interesting to note that a lot of people in the service professions like teachers seem to forget that they have job security and at the end of their working time they have a pension --these are benefits that someone who is making a lot of money does not have but they give up the securty of pension in order to have control over their salary ex. if they are successful they make more if they are not..they make less or lose their job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to note that a lot of people in the service professions like teachers seem to forget that they have job security and at the end of their working time they have a pension --these are benefits that someone who is making a lot of money does not have but they give up the securty of pension in order to have control over their salary ex. if they are successful they make more if they are not..they make less or lose their job.

Job security? Obviously you have no friends or family members in the profession. Search under PAR to see just how safe our jobs are. read about the initiatives to connect job security to test scores. Furthermore, ask us about WHY we are investing in TSAs/TDAs instead of relying upon our measly teacher pensions. It's people such as yourself who make us look bad - like complainers. But this is entirely another thread that may or may not fit under political topics.

one thing I've got to add - At least I'm not surrounded by people like you in my profession.

If I sound angry, I am. Educate yourself before you start to bash teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I am a fiscal liberal (welfare, safety net, good) and social conservative (abortion, death penalty, sexual promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, all wrong).
I don't really fit into that many circles.

Jesus Christ.

Not as an epithet, but as a model for your politics.

Huh?

Jesus turned water into wine... so he wasn't against alcohol.

And he was VERY lenient towards the woman who was a (sexually promiscuous) prostitute, right? Everyone else wanted to stone her, he just said, leave her alone unless you are prefect yourself. Pretty forgiving, there. I don't recall reading Jesus thought anything pro or con towards abortion. But I could have missed it. Death penalty? He willingly submitted TO it, didn't protest against it.... don't recall him saying anything against drugs, either for that matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to note that a lot of people in the service professions like teachers seem to forget that they have job security and at the end of their working time they have a pension --these are benefits that someone who is making a lot of money does not have but they give up the securty of pension in order to have control over their salary ex. if they are successful they make more if they are not..they make less or lose their job.

Job security? Obviously you have no friends or family members in the profession. Search under PAR to see just how safe our jobs are. read about the initiatives to connect job security to test scores. Furthermore, ask us about WHY we are investing in TSAs/TDAs instead of relying upon our measly teacher pensions. It's people such as yourself who make us look bad - like complainers. But this is entirely another thread that may or may not fit under political topics.

one thing I've got to add - At least I'm not surrounded by people like you in my profession.

If I sound angry, I am. Educate yourself before you start to bash teachers.

Teachers have relative job security compared to a salesman, who is self employed, and may be out of work in a minute if his territory shrinks or his product disappears. This is all relative. BTW, the teachers unions make it very hard to fire a teacher.

[Anonymous]

The teachers union, and other unions, are who negotiated that pension.

[Anonymous]

Remember pensions? It's why your grandparents were able to retire.

[Anonymous]

I agree with previous posters-most of my most liberal friends are incredibly close-minded and think that if you live in a rural area or believe in God you are stupid. Of course they also believe they are the most intelligent and know more than anyone and any one who disagrees with them is basically uneducated and unintellectual.

Of course these are also the same people who while bashing our leaders/countries go overseas to some of the most brutal authoritarian places and make nice with dictators-and the power elite- and basically become apologists for China and the like-

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course these are also the same people who while bashing our leaders/countries go overseas to some of the most brutal authoritarian places and make nice with dictators-and the power elite- and basically become apologists for China and the like-

The above was written about liberals, but I believe that with a few minutes of search I could find virtually the same thing written about conservatives (and may have done so myself in the not too distant past). I conjecture that most any negative comment characterizing one either side is also (perhaps with an obvious change here and there) made about the other.

In short, people on both sides (including myself, I admit) often judge the other side by its most extreme examples, thus sharpening the divide. McCain and Obama had the potential to run a campaign that would fight this tendency, and it might have come to pass if Obama had taken McCain's offer of a series of town hall meetings. I still have hopes that Obama's presidency will follow through on his campaign theme of uniting us. But Bush had the same theme and failed miserably at this task, so it remains to be seen.