Reply #7: What a load of bullshit...ohhh please do excuse my french! [View All]

What makes someone liberal? It isn't the pie in ze sky idealism of the anarchists, communists, or compassionate conservatives deluded with visions of the government withering away...and with it all economic and social problems. Is it the hope that we can whine and shit, but when we close our eyes that all such problems will disappear?

Or is liberalism based on reality? It is based on the experiences of the Great Depression, the sins of slavery, knowledge of history..plagued with tyranny, and a greater sense of human nature as the acknowledgement that man is self-serving, intolerant, violent, and incompetent.

Liberalism is the recognition that humankind needs an entity controlled by the will of the majority, but sensitive to the needs of the minority. It understands that supply and demand are necessary economic forces, but must be balanced with public funding for education, healthcare, and environmental protection. We know that liberity is not possible without comman law, enforced by public servants..not private contractors who serve their own personal interests. But most importantly we understand that all government officials must be put in power by the voter...from the Pentagon to those in Congress, from the White House to the state House. We must never except anything less than this, the government is the tool of the people we are not the tools of the government.