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To: one_less who wrote (1006037)

3/14/2017 5:59:40 PM

From: koan

Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575706

I intend for this to be a friendly post. As I have said many times, a liberal can be defined by a common dictionary definition as well as anything else.

lib·er·al

'lib(?)r?l/

adjective

1> open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.

"they have more liberal views toward marriage and divorce than some people"

(of education) concerned mainly with broadening a person's general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training.

synonyms:

wide-ranging, broad-based, general

"a liberal education"

As far as socialism goes, I am a simple Democratic socialist. Which is what most people are in Western civilization. That simply means, I believe that a society that works best is when the people decide how they want that society to function.

In the Democratic socialist country like ours and every other Western democracy, we elect representatives to make decisions for us and work with other groups who may have a different opinion to find a compromise. This starts right at the local level when we elect assemblies, school boards, local and state and federal representatives.

That is really the only logical social system there is. And it is what most people are whether they know it or not. Who thinks it's a bad idea to vote for a local assembly to run the city government and a school board to run the school system? It is common sense that you have to have some system and that is a basic simple system that has worked better than any other system in history.

The reason most liberals lean toward socialism in the sense of having local state and federal laws, is because they know sometimes that is needed. It was needed to have the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to get rid of segregation. That had to be done at the federal level. And that is where the conservatives come in want states rights, but they want states rights so they can be racist. Well in the past that was the deal.

So liberal is what I have posted above, as far as socialism goes, I am a Democratic socialist like everybody else practically in the Western world and simply believe that the people should elect their representatives to define what the role of societies going to be in everyone's life.

As simple as that.