Someone who thinks that killing an unborn child is free choice, but killing a convicted murderer or a child rapist is "insensitive".
Someone who think the government should control all aspects of life examples: Healthcare, Education, Business, personal income, and religious beliefs (So nobody can be offended).
Someone who thinks that eliminating poverty is more important than preserving economic freedom in life.
Someone who thinks that fair taxation is not fair until the people who make more money pay more than their fair share.
Someone who supports such extreme environmental regulations that drilling for oil in the US is virtually impossible, but also fight against any source of energy that actually works (Nuclear, Coal). But they can also support ethanol that takes approximately 1.5 gallons of diesel fuel to provide the power to make 1 gallon of "environmental friendly" ethanol.
They must also subsidize ethanol companies, therefore creating a money vacuum into a doomed energy policy. Which not too mention has decreased US food production and therefore has led to a worldwide increase of countries with food shortages by the way.
Someone who supports free speech as long as it doesn't contradict what they believe, then it's no longer free speech, but "hate speech."
They must also be completely ignorant of history which shows us that increase in government control ultimately leads to the destruction of freedom. Examples: The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, The People's Republic of China, etc.
Someone who believes in equal economic outcome (an aspect of socialism) instead of inequality based on what you earned (an aspect of capitalism).
Someone who blindly believes that the government would never do anything to hinder the freedoms of people no matter how much power it is given and the government is the solution to all economic and social problems because they actually know what's best for you, not the individual. Remember, Big Brother is here to help you, not hurt you.
There are of course many other things that you must blindly believe in order to be a liberal in the modern political American aspect of the word. Regardless of what history teaches us about government control in people's lives.
Someone who think the government should control all aspects of life examples: Healthcare, Education, Business, personal income, and religious beliefs (So nobody can be offended).
Someone who thinks that eliminating poverty is more important than preserving economic freedom in life.
Someone who thinks that fair taxation is not fair until the people who make more money pay more than their fair share.
Someone who supports such extreme environmental regulations that drilling for oil in the US is virtually impossible, but also fight against any source of energy that actually works (Nuclear, Coal). But they can also support ethanol that takes approximately 1.5 gallons of diesel fuel to provide the power to make 1 gallon of "environmental friendly" ethanol.
They must also subsidize ethanol companies, therefore creating a money vacuum into a doomed energy policy. Which not too mention has decreased US food production and therefore has led to a worldwide increase of countries with food shortages by the way.
Someone who supports free speech as long as it doesn't contradict what they believe, then it's no longer free speech, but "hate speech."
They must also be completely ignorant of history which shows us that increase in government control ultimately leads to the destruction of freedom. Examples: The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, The People's Republic of China, etc.
Someone who believes in equal economic outcome (an aspect of socialism) instead of inequality based on what you earned (an aspect of capitalism).
Someone who blindly believes that the government would never do anything to hinder the freedoms of people no matter how much power it is given and the government is the solution to all economic and social problems because they actually know what's best for you, not the individual. Remember, Big Brother is here to help you, not hurt you.
There are of course many other things that you must blindly believe in order to be a liberal in the modern political American aspect of the word. Regardless of what history teaches us about government control in people's lives.
Conservative: Doesn't history show us that too much government control, even with good intentions, leads to inevitable destruction of freedom?
Liberal: That's only because the wrong people were in power
Conservative: What makes modern American liberals so different?
Liberal: Because WE have the best interest of the people on our minds.
Conservative: That's what every oppressive government in history said when they eliminated freedoms for the sake of the "common good"
Liberal: But we're different! We're not eliminating freedom, but eliminating people's choice to make wrong decisions.
Conservative: So who decides what's "best for the people", the government? How does that make you different than a socialist?
Liberal: WE JUST ARE! You're a racist! And a Bigot! And you don't care about anybody but the super rich!
Conservative: Why? Because I don't want the government to have complete control in people's lives? But instead give the people the right to prosper if they choose, or to not if they choose?
Liberal: Just shut up! You're an ignorant, Christian, redneck, homophobe!
Conservative: My point exactly.
Liberal: That's only because the wrong people were in power
Conservative: What makes modern American liberals so different?
Liberal: Because WE have the best interest of the people on our minds.
Conservative: That's what every oppressive government in history said when they eliminated freedoms for the sake of the "common good"
Liberal: But we're different! We're not eliminating freedom, but eliminating people's choice to make wrong decisions.
Conservative: So who decides what's "best for the people", the government? How does that make you different than a socialist?
Liberal: WE JUST ARE! You're a racist! And a Bigot! And you don't care about anybody but the super rich!
Conservative: Why? Because I don't want the government to have complete control in people's lives? But instead give the people the right to prosper if they choose, or to not if they choose?
Liberal: Just shut up! You're an ignorant, Christian, redneck, homophobe!
Conservative: My point exactly.
by Ethan Daigle April 21, 2008
1. Political tendency which, in the European context, sits firmly in the middle of the spectrum, without any strong political ideology. Synonymous with "middle-of-the-road". American liberals are considerably to the right of their European counterparts.
"A woolly liberal", "a wet liberal"
2. Theological tendency, synonymous with Modernist, opposite to Conservative or Fundamentalist.
3. An ill-defined term, often abusive, which provokes violent and hysterical reactions from Americans.
"A woolly liberal", "a wet liberal"
2. Theological tendency, synonymous with Modernist, opposite to Conservative or Fundamentalist.
3. An ill-defined term, often abusive, which provokes violent and hysterical reactions from Americans.
by Unsavoury foreigner February 16, 2005
by Bob Bobman January 26, 2007
a steaming pile a shit. someone who thinks they know all about the problems in life. someone who gets embarassed of his/her country for being the best and would rather switch to socialism and tax the fuck out of everyone to limit success. someone who comes back after a semester of college and spits out the same dog shit that their liberal professors fed them and try to pass it off as their own. someone who hates rush limbaugh for being right all the time and for repearedly quashing their feable arguments. just all around illinformed, misinformed, uninformed steaming piles of shit!
Billy thinks we should vote Obama. He says that Obama is change we can believe in. I said that all Obama's changes would be for the worse. He didn't care, he's a liberal.
by john doe 3000 July 11, 2008
Ignorant freedom-haters who don't think it's worth their time to read up on "the facts". They think that killing soon-to-be babies is right and that noone should have at least a chance at life, no matter how bad it may be. They all praise their pagan forest god Al Gore, whose house emits ten times as many greenhouse gases as a normal house. During the Civil War, they supported slavery against the newly formed Republican party, which was against slavery. Many American liberals cannot speak proper English, either speaking in a completely incoherent "big city" accent, or like they think that they're a rapper. Many value material objects and sex over anything else, and others think that everyone who doesn't think their way should be shot. A common profession among liberals is that of the drug dealer.
by CrystDron February 28, 2007
someone who believes in lassiez-faire capitalism
by AUSTIN STONEMAN September 25, 2003
A liberal is a person who advocates for a system in which everybody can coexist pacifically without anyone forcing sb into doing what they want. This implies that for example, Christians cannot but convince peacefully that their belief is the best.
The state shouldn't intervene either, except for some few areas: military, police, minimal social assistance and the judicial system to enforce the non-aggresion laws. In this line of thinking, Milton Friedman is one of the greatest exponents of liberal ideology. Any tax is considered theft, since it's an aggression to private property, but some can be considered so beneficial and so inexpensive that may be justifiable.
There is a natural tendency to want to be the most liberal in the room. Some even advocate for anarchy: no state intervention at all. The rest are called minarchists, and hated by the radical anarchists.
The state shouldn't intervene either, except for some few areas: military, police, minimal social assistance and the judicial system to enforce the non-aggresion laws. In this line of thinking, Milton Friedman is one of the greatest exponents of liberal ideology. Any tax is considered theft, since it's an aggression to private property, but some can be considered so beneficial and so inexpensive that may be justifiable.
There is a natural tendency to want to be the most liberal in the room. Some even advocate for anarchy: no state intervention at all. The rest are called minarchists, and hated by the radical anarchists.
by Laura Doyle July 14, 2021