Liberal

Barack Obama advocates the use of Keynesian economic concepts despite the fact that the pedophile John Maynard Keynes was incompetent and a fraud.

A liberal (not to be confused with a "leftist") is someone who rejects traditional and biblical standards, often for delusionally altruistic reasons. Some may be Christians, but they are rarely immensely committed to Christianity. Liberalism began as a movement for individual liberties, but today is increasingly statist and, as in Europe, welfare state-ist. Liberalism has changed over the years and degenerated into a delusional (in the sense of economic views), and anti-traditional ideology.

For example, Franklin Delano Roosevelt firmly believed in private sector unions, but vehemently opposed and condemned public sector unions, stating that the idea of collective bargaining can't be transferred to the public sector, as that would result in the government being unable to carry out its duties. Yet today, decades later, Democrats and liberals are almost in cahoots with public sector unions, as they "donate" money to the re-election campaign in exchange for more taxpayer money in their wallets and fluffed up pensions.

Polling data over several decades has consistently shown more Americans identify themselves as conservative than liberal, by a ratio of 2-1. A liberal generally supports many of the following political positions and practices:

• Spending money on corrupt programs.
• Government solving economic problems
• Belief that terrorism isn't a huge threat and the only reason radical Muslims extremists hate us is because of bad foreign policy
• Taxpayer-funded and/or legalized abortion
• Censorship of teacher-lead prayer in classrooms and school/state sponsored events religious events
• Support for gun control
• Affirmative Action
• Support of obscenity, pornography and violence in video games as a First Amendment right
• Getting big business out of government through progressive taxation.
• Government-aided medical care, such as Universal Health Care
• Taxpayer-funded and government-controlled public education
• The denial of traditional gender roles
• Insisting that men and women be placed in the same jobs in the military
• Legalized same-sex marriage
• Tax and spend
• Overburdening the economic sector with regulations.
• Trying to impede the economic freedom of Job Creators
• Support and spreading Political correctness.
• Support of labor unions
• Teaching acceptance of promiscuity through sexual "education" (the teaching of safe sex) rather than teaching abstinence from sex.
• A "living Constitution" that is reinterpreted as liberals prefer, rather than how it was intended
• Government programs to rehabilitate criminals
• Abolition of the death penalty

Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was a Democratic Party activist who had his picture taken with First Lady Rosalynn Carter in 1978. In an interview where he denied killing any of his victims, John Gacy said he was bisexual and "very liberal".

• Environmentalism
• Disarmament treaties
• Globalism
• Opposition to the integration of Church and State.
• Opposition to full private property rights
• Reinstating the Fairness Doctrine
• In 2005, it was reported by CBS News that liberals were the most likely supporters of the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution is a key component of atheistic ideologies in the Western World.
• Opposition to domestic wire-tapping as authorized in the Patriot Act
• Opposition of Operation Iraqi Freedom, a major part of the War on Terrorism.
• Withholds support to the War on Terrorism and the War in Iraq.
• Tolerance of different ideas and lifestyles.
• Supports financially irresponsible policies.
• Following policies which are proven to be incorrect.
• Do not support a Laissez-Faire Capitalist economy and support regulation of business.
• Encouragement of global warming alarmism.

According to current dictionaries and their own beliefs, a liberal is "a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties" or "a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets," or "open-minded or tolerant, especially free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc." or "favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, especially as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.".

Liberals and Uncharitableness

American liberals give less to charity than American conservatives. In addition, per capita atheists and agnostics in the United States give significantly less to charity than theists even when church giving is not counted for theists.[5][6][7]

For more information please see: Liberals and uncharitableness and Atheism and charity

In March of 2008, George Will wrote at RealClearPolitics concerning the United States:

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Sixteen months ago, Arthur C. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University, published "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism." The surprise is that liberals are markedly less charitable than conservatives.... If many conservatives are liberals who have been mugged by reality, Brooks, a registered independent, is, as a reviewer of his book said, a social scientist who has been mugged by data. They include these findings: -- Although liberal families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227). -- Conservatives also donate more time and give more blood.

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Atheists and agnostics often reject Biblical morality (and therefore conservative Christianity ) and hold to moral relativism. Therefore, it is not surprising that per capita atheists and agnostics in America give significantly less to charity than theists even when church giving is not counted for theists.[8][9][10]

Liberal politicians and uncharitableness

The political magazine the American Spectator featured an article which focused on liberal politicians and uncharitableness and the article exposed the hypocrisy of the liberal politicians it featured.

In addition, Barack Obama has been criticized concerning his charitable giving.

Liberals and Superstition

The Wall Street Journal reported: "A comprehensive new study released by Baylor University, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology.

Also, in September of 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported:

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The reality is that the New Atheist campaign, by discouraging religion, won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith — it's what the empirical data tell us. "What Americans Really Believe," a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians.... This is not a new finding. In his 1983 book "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener," skeptic and science writer Martin Gardner cited the decline of traditional religious belief among the better educated as one of the causes for an increase in pseudoscience, cults and superstition. He referenced a 1980 study published in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer that showed irreligious college students to be by far the most likely to embrace paranormal beliefs, while born-again Christian college students were the least likely.

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Liberalism in North America Today

Democrats and most media outlets in the U.S. are blatantly liberal. Liberalism in North America today practices three primary tactics to attack the Republican Party, and sometimes to attack American values in general. These three liberal tactics can be pronounced using the following acronym: SIN. Liberals (1) Shift the subject, they (2) Ignore the facts, and they (3) Name call.

• Liberals typically support a "mixed" economy, a policy similar to that of fascism.

• Liberals claimed a monopoly on compassion, decency, and social justice (as defined by themselves), posing as the sole defenders of civic virtue against a horde of backwoodsmen, racists, and religious fanatics. [11]

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There's another goal, from my point of view, which is to try to lay the groundwork for a radical political force which would conceive of itself as distinctly to the left of moderate, reformist American liberals. And that has two aspects. One is to try to change that liberalism, to transform it by analysis, critique, and activism; the second is to build a radical movement which would be an autonomous force in its own right, which would be distinct from the traditional American liberal consensus. This radical part of the program involves not simply supporting the liberal students against conservative students and conservative professors, but trying to act on them, to push them to the left. It also involves trying to find and support, even trying to help create, networks of radical students in law school and of radical professors around the country — students and teachers who see themselves as wanting to go a lot further than most people want to go.

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Liberal Rankings of Congress Members

The National Journal compiles the votes of each congress member each year and uses the information to create rankings of how liberal each member of the United States Congress is. In addition to showing the voting records of each member and given an overall all ranking of liberalness, the National Journal also ranks congress members by liberalness in the areas of social, economic, and foreign policy.

Liberalism in Europe today

In Europe, on the other hand, parties that call themselves liberal are moderate in outlook, ranging from centre-left to centre-right, promote typically economic and business freedom. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a party of the European Parliament that represents most liberal parties from European countries. Similar policies are promoted by many liberal parties throughout the world, such as the Liberal Party of Australia.

Trade unions and socialist parties often criticize politicians for promoting lower taxes on business, or more flexible hiring and firing laws, by calling them "liberals" or neoliberals. Thus, just as in the US, "liberal" may occasionally be used as a term of abuse. But when someone is called "liberal" in Europe, it has an entirely different meaning than in the US. In fact, the US meaning of liberal is more similar to the politics of European socialist or social democratic parties.

Historical Liberalism

In history, the word "liberal" has meant different things at different times, and was associated with individual liberty in prior centuries. In the postwar period, liberals supported government intervention in the economy and welfare state policies, as well as peaceful coexistence with the communist block, which are not liberal policies in the sense of classical liberalism. After the end of the cold war, with the demise of socialism and communism, many liberals embraced some ideas from economic neo-liberalism, and coined it the "Third Way". In the area of national security and foreign policy liberals in the U.S. failed to define a consistent stance, even after the events of 9/11 and the beginning of the war in Iraq. Liberals generally support affirmative action, gay marriage, and abortion.

Original meaning: Classical Liberalism

Liberalism is a political philosophy with freedom as its core value. The term was originally applied to supporters of individual liberties and equal rights, but, in America, the term has come to represent a movement of social change that often conflicts with conservative values such as moral values and tradition.

See Classical Liberalism. Compare Libertarianism.

Infamous liberals

See also: Infamous liberals

• Margaret Sanger

• John Wayne Gacy - In an interview where he denied killing any of his victims, serial killer John Wayne Gacy said he was bisexual and "very liberal". Gacy was also a Democratic Party activist who had his picture taken with Rosalynn Carter.

Liberal Organizations

• AARP - American Association of Retired People
• ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
• ACORN - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
• AFL-CIO - American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
• AI - Amnesty International
• ANSWER - Act Now to Stop War and End Racism
• CAIR - Council on American-Islamic Relations
• Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
• Democratic National Committee
• Greenpeace
• MoveOn.org
• NARAL - National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
• NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Committee for an Effective Congress
• National Education Association
• NOW - National Organization of Women
• PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• Progressives for Obama
• Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
• SEIU - Service Employees International Union
• U.S. Peace Council

Source: The Politix Group

See Also

• Conservative resources
• Articles about liberals
• Classical liberal
• Drinking Liberally
• Godless liberal
• Last wordism
• Liberal celebrity obsession
• Liberal Behavior on Conservapedia
• Liberal Christianity
• Liberal Democrats
• Liberal Elite
• Liberal Falsehoods
• Liberal Fascism
• Liberal friendship
• Liberal Gloss
• Liberal grading
• Liberal hypocrisy
• Liberal hysteria
• Liberal Intellectualism
• Liberal labels
• Liberal Lies About the American Right
• Liberal logic
• Liberal Mind
• Liberal Party
• Liberal supremacist
• Massachusetts liberal
• Progressives
• Scientific Illiteracy and Liberals

Further Information

• New Liberal Terms
• Conservative Links
• http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/conservative-vs-liberal-beliefs/