My definitions:Abraham wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:12 pm MaduroBU,
"Most on this site are liberals."
I heartily disagree, however I'm open to a new interpretation of what defines a person as a liberal.
Please elaborate as your definition of liberal is simply foreign to me.
Thanks!
P.S. or are you just having fun trying to get a rise...knowing none on this site are any variety of commie? (some times erroneously referred to as 'liberals'...)
Liberal- prefers new ideas for new or old problems. The old way is bad.
Conservative- prefers old ideas for new or old problems. The new way is bad.
Pragmatist- prefers ideas that work for new or old problems
I am a pragmatist.
LIberals have their place. I suspect the founding fathers were liberal. The loyalists were conservative.
I don't out right reject all liberal new ideas. Teaching science along with reading writing and arithmetic was a good new liberal idea. I was taught to write cursive in ink with a stick pen from an ink well at the top of my desk ( you probably remember that hole at the top of the desk and wondered what it was for) when I was in the forth grade. Ending that policy was probably a good new liberal idea. Teaching sexuality to kindergarteners is a bad new liberal idea. The conservative way is so much better. Ending free speech is a bad new liberal idea. Ending free speech is a cancer taking over former free counties all over the world. Who would have ever though free speech would be under attack everywhere.
The problem is trying new ideas, especially stupid ones, create most times, chaos and disaster, before people wake up and say, no that is a bad idea, worse sometimes there is no turning back.
Seizing all the guns in the country from law abiding citizens is one of those liberal disasters that you cannot correct afterwards. If you believe that all the newcomers in the last three years will be sent home, I have a bridge to sell you in Baltimore.