Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, civil rights/integration, SS/SSI/Medicare/Medicaid, minimum wage,ending slavery ending child labor, 8 hour day and 40 hour week, workers' rights, unions,Interstate Highway System, rural electrification, women's right's, empowerment of a myriad of disenfrancised groups of people/voters right's, environmental laws, workplace safety laws, CAFE stds, such as they are, unemployment insurance, FDIC, food inspectors, public schools, school lunch system land grant colleges, alt en, probably the National Park system, cuz TR would be considered a lib today,
In short, everything that made America great. And everything you don't like, except the first 3.
And of course Al Gore invented the internet. Unlike the Blackberry, which was invented in Canada by McCain .
And, of course, Med Mary
And,somehow, they gave us a balanced budget last time. Which is called fiscal conservatism, as a opposed to conservatives, who have liberal spend money you don't have budgets. Ironic.
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"I have been a liberal all my life....Conservatives tend to like people who resemble themselves and distrust others......As a Jew, I had to be liberal, first out of self-protection and second because I learned to lean that way as I grew older. I wanted to see the United States changed and made more civilized, more humane, truer to its own proclaimed traditions. I wanted to see all Americans judged as individuals and not as stereotypes. I wanted to see all with reasonable opportunities. I wanted society to feel a reasonable concern for the welfare of the poor, the unemployed, the sick, the aged, the hopeless....I've watched individuals turn from liberal to conservative as they grew older, fatter, and 'more respectable'....It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help." (from his 1994 autobiography I Asimov: A Memoir)
Bigger than the stamp; shudda cut my list down. |
