What is a Liberal?
I live in a Republican county and some Republicans here, bless their hearts, don’t really understand what a liberal really stands for. So they make stuff up, or more aptly, they repeat the words of their great conservative teachers, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly from radio and TV.
In their definition of liberals they say the same things over and over as if we all alike “singing the same tune”. They are not only out of touch with reality, but also tone deaf! However we liberals do agree on some points. For example: We tend to care about other people, many of whom we don’t even know—even people from other countries. We believe that everybody should get an even break in life such as access to a good education and health care.
Our Republican neighbors don’t understand and are afraid that we want to take away all their money and will ruin the moral fabric of the country. Here is my answer to their comments, which you have probably already heard and which I will therefore omit.
Some people in the inner cities are concerned about their children being shot to death in front of their homes and wanted government to do something about it. Many liberals, especially out West, own guns—contrary to what the NRA espouses.
Many of us liberals have placed more trust in the climate research conducted by independent scientists over the past 60 years than in those scientists in the employ of Exon-Mobile. We think bi-lingual education is necessary to function in the modern world, everyone should have equal right to marry, controlled borders, amnesty for illegal aliens who have worked here for years, a woman’s right to abortion and control over her own body, and dual-citizenship has never been an issue.
Liberals believe that “separation of church and state” is a wise policy for both church and state, and that it is a political and legal doctrine of our government. That Congress shall pass no law in respect to “establishment of religion” or that prohibit the free exercise of religion does appear in the Constitution. We can all be counted on to misquote and mis-apply the 10 Commandments. We try to avoid taking someones life and prefer sentencing life in prison to the death penalty. (juries make mistakes) And believe that war should be the last resort, and is, in fact, rarely justified, except in economic terms.
