06-16-2015, 10:01 AM
I don't even know who you're talking about when you refer to "liberals" most of the time Maggot.
It mostly just seems like a convenient, though often ill-fitting, catch-all label for people who see things differently than you do in today's world. Times change.
I know people who are generally liberal-leaning and are very realistic in assessing people and situations case-by-case. And, I know some very conservative people who refuse to look at the reality of current situations and instead try to define most thing in yesteryear's or religious context. And vice versa.
Most people I know are somewhere between the extremes, including myself, which makes us "damned conservatives" to the extreme liberals and "damned liberals" to the extreme conservatives who can't or won't objectively consider things outside of their comfort zones.
It mostly just seems like a convenient, though often ill-fitting, catch-all label for people who see things differently than you do in today's world. Times change.
I know people who are generally liberal-leaning and are very realistic in assessing people and situations case-by-case. And, I know some very conservative people who refuse to look at the reality of current situations and instead try to define most thing in yesteryear's or religious context. And vice versa.
Most people I know are somewhere between the extremes, including myself, which makes us "damned conservatives" to the extreme liberals and "damned liberals" to the extreme conservatives who can't or won't objectively consider things outside of their comfort zones.