Liberal Forum

By IkeBana: My opinion regarding what a liberal might be is pretty simplistic.  Complicated analyses on just about any subject makes my brain hurt and my ADD flare up.  So here goes.  My premise will be rejected by conservative/republicans...it always is.  But I remain invested in it's accuracy.  Co...

By ManhattanTransfer:What makes a liberal as opposed to a conservative?  It all boils down to one very basic philosophical issue re the age old question of which precedes the other:  justice or order? The conservative (the few principled ones there are) asserts that order must first exist so that ju...

By Canadianwithahistorydegree2018: A liberal knows that we are all in this world together...  and has empathy for others...  and is willing to trust individual  people until shown that some are selfish and they should be shunned...  A liberal respects all people who respect liberals...    Conservat...

By fourputt: What makes a liberal? I really don't know if there is a definition that addresses all issues that we have now but I like to think compassion for another human being regardless of all beliefs that other person may have or a simple willingness to look beyond. A desire for all to have a b...

By laripu: My take: a liberal wants a social structure that ensures that people of any kind who need or deserve some help will get it, even if that means that some undeserving people might get something. a conservative wants a social structure that ensures that undeserving people get nothing, even...

By splunch: What makes a Liberal?  An open mind. That's what I always thought.  I land on the conservative side of plenty of issues (not the right-wing side) because it seems to me that the solution to a given problem is to do nothing, or very little, because we cannot always fix things, and somet...

By Zkylonnen8: I believe what makes a liberal is someone who wants the common good for all people and not just the people at the top and the most successful corporations. Also I believe liberals unlike conservatives aren't fueled by constant fear for themselves. I mean if you look at the facts cons...

By Debs: I am a liberal and have been for as long as I had any political ideology. I can boil down my basic political philosophy to two statements  1 Property doesn't have rights. PEOPLE have rights and when the two come into conflict PEOPLE must be given the benefit  2 I never NEVER stand with t...

By Fit2Serve: I just wanted to add (after reading through this "what is a Liberal" string) that this statement by BluDog: "The true meaning of Liberal is someone who is in favor of progressive ideas and not adverse to jettisoning the means and institutions of the past.  Being Liberal, in many way...

By Fit2Serve: The difference between the LEFT and RIGHT is that the RIGHT has NEVER contributed one thing to America, and the RIGHT is far too risk-averse and overwhelmingly TERRIFIED by cultural, technological, and societal change to EVER be of any use to anyone, much less society. By its own well...