Jed
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Post by Jed on Jan 8, 2010 14:24:37 GMT -5
Someone defined a political conservative as follows...
A conservative is somebody that believes in the power of the individual, somebody that believes, please let me make my decisions, that I have a right to succeed and not be penalized for it. I have a right to fail and have no one run to me if I don't want them to run to me. A conservative believes I have a right to manage my family, I have a right to discipline my family in the way I see fit, as long as it is not criminal. A conservative believes I have the right to worship God, I have a right to worship the God of my understanding, and I do not have the right to jam my version of God down anybody else's throat or my version of no God down anybody's throat. A conservative believes live and let live. That's what a conservative believes. A conservative believes in the smallest amount of government, the smallest government you can get without anarchy. That's what a conservative believes.
I think that is a pretty good summary.
Does anyone have a good definition of a Liberal? Is it just the opposite of a Conservative?
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Post by littlebopeep on Jan 8, 2010 15:00:50 GMT -5
I like the above definition!
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sgloe7
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Post by sgloe7 on Jan 8, 2010 17:59:12 GMT -5
Liberals believe that if someone gets hurt (for instence) instead of not running to them even though they don't want it, they'll run to them for their well being, so they don't get more hurt. that's a liberal, also one who believes that abortion is right.
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Post by Josh on Jan 8, 2010 23:39:42 GMT -5
Here's JFKs definition of a liberal:
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Post by dentist on Jan 15, 2010 18:54:28 GMT -5
Moral Liberalism: Think Classical Liberalism, the political philosophy of the American Founding generation.
Think Thomas Jefferson’s, “A nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be,” — noting Jefferson’s definition of “educated” included the all important development and exercise of “the moral sense.”
Think John Adams, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”
Think the self-governing limited government the God of Heaven inspired under our Constitution, with its checks and balances, its division and limitation of powers (including federalism with few powers delegated to Washington and all the rest retained by the states and the people), its inalienable rights — especially religious freedom and the other first amendment rights, and its free enterprise; all of this upheld by an educated, moral, and vigilant electorate.
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Post by Josh on Jan 17, 2010 11:54:30 GMT -5
Moral liberalism kind of sounds like conservatism. Either way, it sounds good to me.
EDIT: So what are some differences between moral liberalism and conservatism?
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