"And what does your answer have to do with that woman be liberal or not??"
The use of the term 'being liberal, as you use it, is politically corrupted to mean doing what ever will get votes for the blue club. If your position is that she did nothing for that cause, then you have a valid complaint. Support of lawless border traffick is for that purpose, trillions spent on unproductive office jobs is for that purpose, etc. Political paralysis is the result of actions taken solely for the sake of thwarting the Red club efforts and winning points for the Blue clubs fruitless efforts. It's what you've seen me refer to as clown puppetry.
Being liberal in the real sense implies a personal quest for meaning, purpose, and virtue which distrusts outward conformity or displays of loyalty to the establishment. It often has meant one had to confront and resist authority and the institution of power. In a visible sense liberals are commonly identified as rebellious and subversive wrt dogma and the ruling authority. There is no sameness about liberals or even leftwingers. Are Stalin, Gandhi, Nelson Mandella, Pol Pot, and Robert Mugabe all cut from the same cloth? Being liberal in the real sense is being willing to think and act in unconventional ways to promote sensible alternatives, uneffected by what the blue club or red club gets out of it.
When I look at the seriousness of challenges to the survival of the US beyond this generation, it seems obvious to me that the threats are more serious than The Great Depression era, WWII, or even the Revolutionary war because in each of those circumstances there was a common spirit of unity in which we were willing to struggle and to produce something of long term value which would carry its value to the global society. Now we are a jobless populous, producing nothing, demanding the government fund an elitist lifestyle with taxes that are not from our earnings, and to spend as if we were backing a philanthropic non-profit organisation. I presented the seriousness of current issues which usually seen as African or Asian problems but which are coming more and more to our door step, where immigration is but one of the cracks through which reality is beginning to seep into American consciousness. |
