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Political question
What does the term 'Liberal' when used politically mean to you? I'm doing research for a paper and want to gather varying opinions on the subject. Any answer will be excellent.
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Well, for a definition of the platform beliefs... my parents and I are liberal Christians (disclaimer). We support gay marriage, comprehensive sex education, gun control and a woman's right to an abortion. We do not support the U.S.'s war in Iraq.
As a political attitude, I think my history teacher once said that liberals believe the government has a responsibility to help out the citizens, and that to do that it should get funding from taxes and focus on quality of life for everbody when making reforms.
Hope I was helpful!
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well i dont go along with opinionated's answer. The true definition of liberal is open minded, tolarable, people. Conservative means more close-minded, traditional type.
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Sick and backwards. For example -- it's perfectly ethical to kill unborn babies but not serial killers or penguins in the Arctic?
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To me, it means freedom for yourself, and freedom for others. So, you have the freedom of choice for yourself, and others have the same right--gays can marry, but you don't have to. Women can get abortions, but you don't have to. Citizens can go to church, but you don't have to. And so on.
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Generally, to me it means believing in tolerance. You tolerate gays because they're not bothering you. You tolerate that guy being on welfare because it's not his fault he was laid off and needs time to go to school and learn skills for a better job. It means that it's not the government's job to be our dad and tell us what's right and wrong.
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Open minded, willing to listen to new ideas/ reforms, willing to consider the needs of the less fortunate, willing to try and create a society where people have equal opportunities and rights, more likely to not use economic progress as the only benchmark for success.
Of course in the US, liberal loses a little bit of its meaning, since you guys generally use it to describe a right wing party (the democrats). So while the democrats are more liberal than the rebulicans, they are both conservatives by any other definition. If the democrats ran where I live (in Dk) they would run as a conservative right wing party.
Hope this was of some use, good luck with your paper.
Edit: Oh and on an amusing side note, while I noticed how the word "liberal" can almost be flung as an insult in the US, the same applies for "conservative" here.
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A derogatory term used by close-minded capitalistic Republicans for people they don’t agree with when half of them don’t even know what a Liberal actually is or what they stand for.
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