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150 Achievements Of Liberalism That Conservatives Seek To Destroy
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/12/150-achievements-of-liberalism-that-conservatives-seek-to-destroy/
150 Achievements Of Liberalism That Conservatives Seek To Destroy
May 12, 2012
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.
Image from OldAmericanCentrury.org
According to virtually any conservative today, the government has been just one big liberal establishment. The current extremists that own and operate the GOP are hell bent on destroying anything and everything that even has a hint of liberalism or progressivism in it, even if Republicans helped pass it. So what would America be like without liberals and progressives? Here is a list of programs, legislation, and achievements that we would not have if extreme right wingers had their way. Some items on this list were indeed passed or created by Republicans, but that doesn’t make them conservative achievements. It only means that at one time, Republicans favored liberalism and progressivism or that they were willing to work with Democrats for the common good.
1. The 40-hour work week.
2. Weekends
3. Vacations
4. Women’s Voting Rights
5. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
6. The right of people of all colors to use schools and facilities.
7. Public schools.
8. Child-labor laws.
9. The right to unionize
10. Health care benefits
11. National Parks
12. National Forests
13. Interstate Highway System
14. GI Bill
15. Labor Laws/Worker’s Rights
16. Marshall Plan
17. FDA
18. Direct election of Senators by the people.
19. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Workplace safety laws
20. Social Security
130 more...
It is safe to assume that if the current breed of Republicans had their way, ALL of the above list would have never happened. The fact is, the people need government. Government protects the people from the greedy power hungry hands of the wealthy, especially when liberals are in power. The corporations and extremists that own the Republicans today will always only do what is profitable to themselves, and would also get rid of most of the things on this list. So, the next time a conservative complains about all those “socialist†liberals, remind them of what liberals have accomplished. Any conservative that claims anything on this list as a conservative achievement would be a hypocrite. Conservatives would lead us back to the Dark Ages. Liberals and liberal ideals have time and time again, led the way to a brighter future for everyone.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002682158
Every day they further prove that study of how liberals are clueless about how conservatives think.
The best point on this was, 137. Over the course of nearly 50 years, liberals contributed greatly to the eventual end of the Cold War.
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5. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
6. The right of people of all colors to use schools and facilities.
Wow. Talk about a bald-faced lie. Filibustered and voted against by Democrats (not to mention George Wallace and Bull "Fire Hose" Connor).
13. Interstate Highway System
Passed by a Republican President
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Let's see, of that first 20, I want to get rid of none. Modifications to some of the bullsh*t the libs have added, absolutely.
Not worth my time to look up the other supposed 130 things we want to get rid of.
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Wow. Talk about a bald-faced lie. Filibustered and voted against by Democrats (not to mention George Wallace and Bull "Fire Hose" Connor).
Passed by a Republican President
I left a comment on the site, called the list a joke.
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The forty hour work week.
I must point out the fallacy here. If you want any amount of financial security, you will have to own your own business, and that applies to almost everyone in the US. Before I point out that business owners have no metric for a forty hour work week, it must be pointed out that when it comes to personal economics, there are 3 types of people. Business owners, business partners, and (postal for the most part) workers.
There is not a business owner alive who was able to build and keep a business running on a 40 hour work week. That is in fact, a luxury for the (postal) worker.
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Are they completely ignorant of history?
If it had been up to Dems like Al Gore Sr. and his buddies, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would have been defeated. It was passed ONLY because Republicans overwhelmed the Dem "nay" votes.
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I think 18 is a valid point, actually. As someone on the site (Coach, maybe?) has pointed out, the Senate was supposed to represent the interests of the States. Therefore, the Senators were appointed by the State Legislatures. When that was changed, they became another glorified beauty pagent, much like the House of Representatives. (Also, if the Senators were still appointed by the State Legislatures, it's entirely possible that NY would have one Dem and one Republican, seeing that the NYS Assembly is hopelessly in Dem control, and the Senate is Republican-led.)
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The forty hour work week.
I must point out the fallacy here. If you want any amount of financial security, you will have to own your own business, and that applies to almost everyone in the US. Before I point out that business owners have no metric for a forty hour work week, it must be pointed out that when it comes to personal economics, there are 3 types of people. Business owners, business partners, and (postal for the most part) workers.
There is not a business owner alive who was able to build and keep a business running on a 40 hour work week. That is in fact, a luxury for the (postal) worker.
Can we get an Amen for brother obumazombie.
:lmao: Ooops! There for a moment I forgot who I was replying to. If this were a liberal board, I would now be in line to be called out for being Racist.
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WOW!!! Liberal created...
2. Weekends
16. Marshall Plan
More like Martial Marshall Law.
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They are taking credit for a lot of stuff that was around long before Democrats. I'm surprised they didn't list the sun coming up each day as one their accomplishments. :stoner: :stoner:
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Weren't national parks and natural forests a creation of Teddy Roosevelt?
You know, the (R) Roosevelt.
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Weren't national parks and natural forests a creation of Teddy Roosevelt?
You know, the (R) Roosevelt.
They'll probably claim it was Andrew Jackson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_park#History).
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So with this list the Liberals are taking credit for everything good that ever happened in this country.
Good ol' Soviet style revisionism. Propaganda at it's finest.
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Most of these are absolutely ridiculous at best.
42. Panama Canal
43. Hoover Dam
I wasn't aware conservatives wanted to destroy the Hoover Dam and the Panama Canal.
46. The United States Military
That tells you about all you need to know about this bullshit list.
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Don't need to look to know that the items on this list were all hated by the National Socialist Democrat Party.
BTW, large cap Liberal does not mean liberal in the classic sense in anyway whatsoever. It is the exact opposite of liberal.
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In Liberalspeak, "destroy" means being restructured and reined in to a common sense level, though there are a lot of government programs that could be done away with completely.
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Wow. Talk about a bald-faced lie. Filibustered and voted against by Democrats (not to mention George Wallace and Bull "Fire Hose" Connor).
Passed by a Republican President
Don't forget that Al Gores dad also voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
I brought the civil rights act up to a liberal friend of mine the other day because he was going on about how conservatives are all racists. He tried to tell me that a lot of democrats back then were neo-conservatives. I told him to prove it and he couldn't. He just said that after the act was passed, the liberals and republicans flip-flopped positions. I told him he is full of crap.
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Can we get an Amen for brother obumazombie.
:lmao: Ooops! There for a moment I forgot who I was replying to. If this were a liberal board, I would now be in line to be called out for being Racist.
Thank you kindly JohnnyReb. I'm glad you liked my post.
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Liberals have plans to destroy precious things too. There is already a list: all the freedoms guaranteed in the first amendment. These freedoms cannot exist within a socialist paradise.
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Liberals have plans to destroy precious things too. There is already a list: all the freedoms guaranteed in the first amendment. These freedoms cannot exist within a socialist paradise.
I can't think of a single freedom that goes along with socialism.
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46. The United States Military
A bold lie even for a liberal. The military began in 1775 by act of the Continental Congress, and named George Washington commander. Not exactly modern day pansy-assed liberals in that bunch.
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This is the internet version of how the Communists used to erase people from photographs that they'd eitehr killed ot tossed into a gulg for falling out of favor with the party.
Completely revisionist and completely a lie.
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Essentially a list of everything they admit is unconstitutional mixed in with their asinine if-you-don't-subsidize-recreational-sex-you-hate-women bullshit.
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I think 18 is a valid point, actually. As someone on the site (Coach, maybe?) has pointed out, the Senate was supposed to represent the interests of the States. Therefore, the Senators were appointed by the State Legislatures. When that was changed, they became another glorified beauty pagent, much like the House of Representatives. (Also, if the Senators were still appointed by the State Legislatures, it's entirely possible that NY would have one Dem and one Republican, seeing that the NYS Assembly is hopelessly in Dem control, and the Senate is Republican-led.)
That's one of the things I bitch about constantly. It was one of the first, if not the major catalyst, that moved us from a Republic towards a God-awful Democracy.
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Most of the comments at the original article have to do with the premise that conservatives would fight to get rid of the item. Such as No. 149,
149. Kept the Union together through Civil War and rebuilt the South afterwards
The author does not prove this, as pointed out by commenters.
My issue is all these lists that are coming out. 2,000 Things Liberals Have Done. 200 Reasons to Vote for Obama. 500 of Obama's Greatest Accomplishments. So many of them are lies, or embellishments, or stupid small shit, "Accomplished toilet training in a reasonably acceptable time," "Can, so far, cut his own meat," "Regularly flosses without being harangued by the dental hygienist."
Liberals are doing this a lot, it's resume-padding, and it looks really lame.
P.S. Do you know our spell-check does not recognize Obama? :rotf:
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They recycled this bullshit list again?
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They recycled this bullshit list again?
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They must have figured enough time had passed since the last time it was debunked.
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They recycled this bullshit list again?
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It's election year, so it is time to clean the dust off all the decorations.
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Most of the comments at the original article have to do with the premise that conservatives would fight to get rid of the item. Such as No. 149, The author does not prove this, as pointed out by commenters.
My issue is all these lists that are coming out. 2,000 Things Liberals Have Done. 200 Reasons to Vote for Obama. 500 of Obama's Greatest Accomplishments. So many of them are lies, or embellishments, or stupid small shit, "Accomplished toilet training in a reasonably acceptable time," "Can, so far, cut his own meat," "Regularly flosses without being harangued by the dental hygienist."
Liberals are doing this a lot, it's resume-padding, and it looks really lame.
P.S. Do you know our spell-check does not recognize Obama? :rotf:
nadin is a microcosm of what you describe liberals doing.
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A bold lie even for a liberal. The military began in 1775 by act of the Continental Congress, and named George Washington commander. Not exactly modern day pansy-assed liberals in that bunch.
Maybe they meant how the liberals are systematically attempting to destroy the military?
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42. Panama Canal
Pretty sure Teddy Roosevelt got that done.
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Pretty sure Teddy Roosevelt got that done.
And Carter (D) then blew it. Sacrificed a highly important global strategy zone just like he did with Iran. Kinda destroys this entire liberal fantasy.
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OSHA was Nixon.
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151. Crippling debt
152. Warping and erosion of our Judaeo-Christian culture and European-derived national identity
153. Confiscatory levels of taxation personal, sales/excise, and corporate
153. Criminilization of honest citizens through overregulation of all aspects of life
154. Importation of cultures incompatible with number 152
155. The View
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In the spirit of Danglar's post, we could make a true list of things that liberals have done, that conservatives really would like to destroy. Here's one:
Socially-engineered government-educated kids who are so dumbed down, so ignorant, that they answered "Sarah Palin" when asked who the vice president was. They have no idea what the Civil War was about. They know nothing, thanks to certain government teachers.
Here's another:
Arrogant and entitled civil servant bureaucrats who cannot be fired, paying part of their taxpayer-provided paychecks to unions, who in turn funnel it to democrats.
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137. Over the course of nearly 50 years, liberals contributed greatly to the eventual end of the Cold War.
Like the Rosenbergs, for instance. Yes, US Liberals artificially prolonged the life of the Soviet Union to the point that it was so irretrievably broken that an American President with a clear vision and strong defense policy could finally tip it over the edge of the cliff it had worked itself onto, while without their aid and comfort it might have actually gone through the political and economic reforms necessary to make it a lasting rival after Stalin's death.
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Like the Rosenbergs, for instance. Yes, US Liberals artificially prolonged the life of the Soviet Union to the point that it was so irretrievably broken that an American President with a clear vision and strong defense policy could finally tip it over the edge of the cliff it had worked itself onto, while without their aid and comfort it might have actually gone through the political and economic reforms necessary to make it a lasting rival after Stalin's death.
Libs have much more in common with whomever our present enemies are, than their own countrymen.
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I'm surprised no one has addressed this one yet:
98. The right to bear arms (Do you really think extreme right wingers would allow anybody besides themselves to have firearms if in power?)
The author of this list didn't even try to look honest! Another person trying to falsely equate conservatism with fascism.
We're supposed to believe that "liberals" fought for the right to bear arms despite their crusades against guns. They try to use every highly publicized shooting as leverage for greater gun control. :thatsright: :bird:
Sounds like some of them have realized they're on the wrong side of this gun issue.
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Obviously these asshats aren't aware that the military existed BEFORE the country existed. They're the stupidest people on the planet. How could they possibly believe that? Do they seriously NOT know history?
Cindie
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Obviously these asshats aren't aware that the military existed BEFORE the country existed. They're the stupidest people on the planet. How could they possibly believe that? Do they seriously NOT know history?
Cindie
Too much of this, Cindie . . .
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68. Head Start modified
69. Americorps gone
72. WIC modified
73. Peace Corps gone
74. United Nations gone
75. World Health Organization gone
76. Nuclear Treaties modified
104. The Brady Handgun Act gone gone
107. The Affordable Care Act which makes insurance companies more honest and fair. scrap it
108. Woman’s Right to Choose modified
110. Affirmative Action reverse discrimination, modify
129. National Endowment for the Arts gone
Didn't see NPR....gone
There's more.
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Obviously these asshats aren't aware that the military existed BEFORE the country existed. They're the stupidest people on the planet. How could they possibly believe that? Do they seriously NOT know history?
Cindie
As far as they are concerned history didn't start until Bush stole the White House. :-)
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As far as they are concerned history didn't start until Bush stole the White House. :-)
For most of them, history begins when they get their Obama Talking Points Memo each morning.
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Obviously these asshats aren't aware that the military existed BEFORE the country existed. They're the stupidest people on the planet. How could they possibly believe that? Do they seriously NOT know history?
Cindie
Yes, they are the most stupid people in the world. And no, they do not know their history, unless it is "Modified" history that they are spoon fed by MSNBC and a liberal teacher, or professor. No wonder the education level of this country is sinking like a stone.
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They are taking credit for a lot of stuff that was around long before Democrats. I'm surprised they didn't list the sun coming up each day as one their accomplishments. :stoner: :stoner:
LOL.
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Most of these are absolutely ridiculous at best.
I wasn't aware conservatives wanted to destroy the Hoover Dam and the Panama Canal.
That tells you about all you need to know about this bullshit list.
Hoover Dam began construction in 1931. FDR didn't become president until 1933. According to the myths we're told about the Great Depression, then-President Hoover was an extremely small government type. Care to rethink this one, libs?