juliaoceania
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Joined: 4/19/2006 From: Somewhere Over the Rainbow Status: offline
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There are liberals that are one hell of a lot more tolerant than I am, it is why I do not consider myself a liberal, I consider myself a radical. I am radically against those who harm others through corporate malfescence, I am against those who squander our nations's resources for personal profit. I am radically against corporate control over our government. I am radically against wars we start on a pretext of self defense. I see nothing but a race to the middle (the middle can be defined by "what is good for big multi-national corporations), not true shifts in ideology that discuss what is really going on that is selling the American people down the river. I have more in common with some libertarians than I do with democrats... I am not a member of any party. I do not want to be. I would rather they control the government, but I do not see that much of, or a substantial difference between the parties and the interests they serve. According to political tests, like MC, I am a left libertarian.. another person's label, not one I care to apply to myself. To be honest, I do not care if people wear seat belts if they are adults, or helmets as adults, or even smoke themselves to death... their choice as long as it isn't hurting me. I do not care what they believe, what they do with their genitals, who they do it with, as long as they are not bothering me. I do not agree with hate speech laws either, I can tell someone to shut up, or leave where they are spewing BS. I have said that I wish they would illegalize smoking on another thread, but deep down, I do not care if they do or not, although it is a sad thing to see someone die from smoking... I think drugs should be legal too, just regulate where people do them so the rest of us do not have to deal with people while they are loaded. People should not be allowed to willy nilly disturb the peace. We have to have some sort of social contract with each other after all, and every society defines the social contract. As far as Lieberman, the Republican from Connecticut ( say this sarcastically of course), democrats in that state had a right to band together and decide not to vote for him based upon his record. If enough felt that way who are we to tell them that their freedom to choose whom they wanted was wrong? Their state, their party, their choice. They have that freedom to choose how liberal they want to be, or that supporting anyone that supported the war is not the best course for this country. I am not voting for Feinstien for the same reason, and I would not be surprised to see many in both parties go the way of Liberman.. it is time to hold them accountable.. and by gosh I am all for accountablity! Going back to your intolerance point. You seem to be lumping all liberals together into one group and judging them, which is a stereotype, and is rather intolerant too.. I think liberals have been way too tolerant, and this country is so far right of center it is on its way to many of the things that earmarked National Socialism. I think that some people feel that Republicans are like Nazis, some of them are.. I had the misfortune of dating one conservative that told me "Hitler wasn't all bad". I left his presense right after he said this... he defined himself, I didn't define him.
< Message edited by juliaoceania -- 8/17/2006 3:50:46 PM >
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