MadRed wrote:
To be a liberal:
1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.
Isn't that similar to how conservatives believe in capital punishment but are against euthanasia?
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2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments
create prosperity..
To be conservative, you have to believe that government is generally evil but corporations are generally good. Yet, corporations run our government so.... huh?
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3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are
more of a threat than nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Iran or
Chinese and North Korean communists.
What about how conservatives seem to hate spending billions on our own poor, but they're perfectly fine with spending that amount on the poor in Iraq?
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4. You have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.
Conservatives seem to believe that any nudity in art is perverse rather than of any aesthetic value (see John Ashcroft).
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5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by
cyclical changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer
moms driving SUV's. (and Al Gore's Electric bills... )
Many conservatives believe that the world was made in 6 days by an invisible and omnipotent being.
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6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being
homosexual is natural.
Conservatives believe that you should have the right to bear arms but you shouldn't have the right to fight for your country if you're gay.
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7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal
funding.
Conservatives believe abstinence-only programs are more successful at preventing pregnancy than condoms.
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8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th-graders
how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
Conservatives believe in teaching "family values" in school but they also believe in spending less on education....
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9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but PETA
activists do.
I'll give you that one...
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10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually
doing something to earn it.
Conservatives believe that the only way you can become poor is through laziness.
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11. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of
the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of
the Constitution.
Conservatives say they believe in smaller government, but they also support the Patriot Act.
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12. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
Conservatives believe in making tax cuts but also believe in spending even more than the tax revenue allows for.
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13. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more
important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, or
Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln was a social liberal... just to let you know.
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14. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial
quotas and set-asides are not.
I'll give you this one too....
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15. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked well
anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
Replace the word socialism with Communism, and I'll give you that one too....
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16. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag queens and
transvestites should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at
Christmas should be illegal.
Another I'll give you....