I Agree With Eric Alterman on the word "Liberal"

[Attero Dominatus]

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fascisthunter  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 04:28 PM
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I Agree With Eric Alterman on the word "Liberal"
   
Too many are too afraid to call themselves a liberal, even though they are, because of the RW demonizing the word. I say reclaim "Liberal", and do not adopt "Progressive" as a substitute.

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I think liberal should be reclaimed from the moonbats and returned to its classical meaning (which is far removed from marxism). Today's "liberals" should be just called moonbats.

Pigwidgeon  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 04:28 PM
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1. I am a Liberal   Updated at 4:38 PM
   
--p!
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You're just a moonbat.

HelenWheels  Donating Member  (94 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 04:30 PM
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2. Liberal first, democrat second
   
and I always tell people that if they ask me where I am politically.
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SeattleGirl  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 04:33 PM
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5. I'm a liberal, and have never been ashamed of it or afraid to us the word.   Updated at 2:56 PM
   
The RW can go **** itself if they don't like it that I am a liberal.

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ORDagnabbit  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 04:36 PM
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9. afraid of being called a liberal? heres a read for you.
   
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too.

He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer adheres to these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union.

If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime. Joe also forgets that his in addition to his federally subsidized student loans, he attended a state funded university.

Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards to go along with the taxpayer funded roads.

He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans.

The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification.

He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."
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Copied from various other DUmmy posts in the past.

tridim  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 04:37 PM
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11. After November we'll be able to take back everything they've stolen from us since 1980..
   
Including our words.

**** you Republicans, we're taking our country back!
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The VRWC owns all 

EOTE  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 04:41 PM
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13. I'm a liberal.... and a progressive.
   
I don't fear the word progressive as some kind of rewrite of what we stand for. I'd take either word as a compliment.
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Funny that you call yourselves "progressive" but want us to live under a Soviet system.

Warpy  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Feb-26-08 04:42 PM
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14. I like to remind people that liberals are the only ones
   
who ever got this country to work well for people who have to work for a living, keep the banking thieves in check, and keep our jobs here. I also remind them that liberals went out of power in 1969 when Nixon took over and that the only Democrats in the Executive since then have been two southern conservatives.

That means conservatism has been in control for 39 years now. If this country is no longer working for its people, it's certainly not the fault of people who were kicked out of power that long ago. It's time to put the blame where it lies.

Conservatives in both parties broke it. Liberals are the only people with a hope of putting it back together again.
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[Chris_]

That means conservatism has been in control for 39 years now. If this country is no longer working for its people, it's certainly not the fault of people who were kicked out of power that long ago. It's time to put the blame where it lies.

Except for the carter administration which was by any and every possible measure the worst presidency ever and then the 8 years when bubba "lead-by-popularity-poll" dismantled our military and invited our enemies to attack us and was directly responsible for the worst foreign attack on the Continental US ever.

And these people want to REVEL in their failures?

[TheSarge]

And these people want to REVEL in their failures?

No not so much.  Most of the DUmmies believe that INCLUDING Carter...there hasn't been a true Liberal (by their definition) to yet take the oath of office as POTUS.

Even yesterday they were describing FDR as a "Moderate"

The only "failure" the DUmmies see is that they haven't duped us into electing an American Stalin yet.

[Duke Nukum]

I also remind them that liberals went out of power in 1969 when Nixon took over and that the only Democrats in the Executive since then have been two southern conservatives.

Dumwit:

Nixon=OSHA + EPA
Carter=Dept. of Ed.
Clinton=public pornography for all

[jukin]

Stalin and mao are just a bit to the right for the DUmbasses.