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| − | [[File:President Barack Obama.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|[[Barack Hussein Obama]] was one of the most liberal presidents in the U.S. history.]]
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| − | Liberalism, if it is all the ideology that supports change, has no consistent ideals throughout history, but this does not bother it, as it generally ignores history. Identifying its particulars cannot be done based on the literal meaning of the word, "the belief in freedom," because in the present context, liberals often suppress freedom of speech, freedom of the Second Amendment, and in the case of recent judicial activism, the freedom to use executive powers granted by the Constitution and to fulfill one's duty to protect one's country. While the drafters of the Constitution are often regarded as liberals, as they were in support of change and freedom, their ideology is often in conflict with the liberals of today.
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| − | See: [[Liberalism]], [[Liberal]]
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| − | ===Liberal values===
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| − | In a present context, the liberal stance on current issues is as follows:
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| − | *Liberals oppose the right to life for unborn children
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| − | *Liberals support homosexual marriage
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| − | *Liberals oppose the right to keep children safe from pornography
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| − | *Liberals support legalizing all forms of drugs and chemicals
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| − | *Liberals support "affirmative action," i.e., the granting of special rights to minority groups and women.
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| − | *Liberals oppose the Second Amendment
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| − | Conjecturally, people who are liberal on political ideals...
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| − | *prefer bawdy jokes and potty humor over wordplay, even in children's movies.
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| − | *use profanity.
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| − | *listen to hip-hop or punk rock music, and associate each style with a race.
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| − | *believe Satanism is a legitimate, harmless religion, but Christianity is not.
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| − | *didn't know Alexander Hamilton wasn't a president until they saw ''Hamilton!''.
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| − | *oppose private schools.
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| − | *enjoy watching the Oscars.
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| − | *spend more time watching the Super Bowl on Super Bowl Sunday than remembering veterans on Veterans' Day and Memorial Day combined. (Memorial Day regards only deceased veterans; veterans includes all).
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| − | *think James Joyce and Jack Kerouac were great writers.
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| − | *consider Communism as a feasible means of economics.
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| − | *believe that World War Two was the cause of the end of the Great Depression, not FDR's economic policies.
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| − | *will not accept a tax cut if it requires Donald Trump to take a tax cut as well.
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| − | *believe anything a scientist says is true
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| − | *accept the existence of hurricanes and other natural disasters as evidence of climate change
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| − | *thinks wind power is perfectly safe for the environment, despite reports of birds being killed by the blades, and that solar power is the same, though birds get fried by the concentrated rays. Coal power they reject on the grounds that it produces carbon dioxide.
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| − | *accept without questioning that 1+2+3+4+5... is -1/12, because mathematicians say so.
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| − | *base their perception of Christianity on its appearance in movies, television, and video games.
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| − | *read and see importance in entertainment news and keep track of famous actors and actresses.
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| − | *think that the ''Huffington Post'' is a newspaper.
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| | Conservatives often wished to be defined as something other than the opposition to the more visible force of liberalism, not to be the background on which it occurs. If conservatism were to define itself as an ideology, it would likely related to certain more defined ones, such as the Judeo-Christian ideology taught by the Bible, the idea of classical liberalism as supported by [[Socrates]] and [[Plato]] but not [[Aristotle]], and the principles of such men as the modern conservatives [[Edmund Burke]], [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]], or the scholarly Christian ancients [[St. Augustine]] and [[Thomas Aquinas]].<ref>"Liberalism." ''The Great Conversation''. Great Books of the Western World, 2. ''Britannica''.</ref> Yet, lacking in a scholarly and documented ideology, the epithet conservative is applied to such differently minded people as [[Rush Limbaugh]], [[C.S. Lewis]], [[Ann Coulter]], [[Bill O'Reilly]], and the staff of Fox News.<ref>"The 100 People the Left Hates Most." ''TIME magazine''.</ref> | | Conservatives often wished to be defined as something other than the opposition to the more visible force of liberalism, not to be the background on which it occurs. If conservatism were to define itself as an ideology, it would likely related to certain more defined ones, such as the Judeo-Christian ideology taught by the Bible, the idea of classical liberalism as supported by [[Socrates]] and [[Plato]] but not [[Aristotle]], and the principles of such men as the modern conservatives [[Edmund Burke]], [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]], or the scholarly Christian ancients [[St. Augustine]] and [[Thomas Aquinas]].<ref>"Liberalism." ''The Great Conversation''. Great Books of the Western World, 2. ''Britannica''.</ref> Yet, lacking in a scholarly and documented ideology, the epithet conservative is applied to such differently minded people as [[Rush Limbaugh]], [[C.S. Lewis]], [[Ann Coulter]], [[Bill O'Reilly]], and the staff of Fox News.<ref>"The 100 People the Left Hates Most." ''TIME magazine''.</ref> |