That's a dude.

like I give one

Please read what the pic says. And realize you're stupid.

This is why I prefer to remain left of center, as some will call it.

I'm liberal and I'm drinking soda right now while I'm reading your comment. I couldn't agree more.

Amen

Don't forget Asians, Hispanics, Muslims, Atheists and Feminists...

last time I checked, you could get a bunch of free shit no matter what race you are, so long as you are poor and lazy, and you get get money from the goverment for it. However, certain races( everyone thats not white) could, for instance, get a special scolarship for not being white and get money off their tution (appyling for colleges made me angry)
soooo....yeah

I understand your opinion and respect it wholeheartedly.

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this is true

Since when?

Since the Tea Party.

How? If you want to make an incredibly ignorant statement, be prepared to back it up.

I'm not trashing all conservatives, but the Tea Party has given the entire Republican party a bad name. That is, unless you want to argue that Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, and Michelle Bachmann are intellectual individuals.

So you really think a significant portion of the country hates many people? Really? You gotta be smarter than that.

I'm saying that because of this movement, conservative logic has become that bad.

I'm not saying all Republicans are moronic bigots, but the Teabaggers sure have made them look like it.

Look at this "essay" for example, by Judson Philips, founder of the Tea Party Nation website.

www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/mr-obama-release-your-records

This man uses this form of "logic" to assert that President Obama should prove that he is not gay and does not smoke crack. Philips also thinks that releasing medical records would prove that. The sad part is, people buy it. When dealing with the Tea Party, all logic and reasoning goes down the drain.

It should be no shocking revelation that there's always a fringe to every side. Naturally you'll get your crazies on any side of any issue, and I have no desire to defend them.

I don't think you quite grasp the nature of the tea party. There's no central organization, no one group or person to speak for all. I'm sure you're familiar with the concept of the "vocal minority." While the majority are more interested in issues like balancing the budget, unemployment, the economy, etc, there's always that portion that shriek and holler about irrelevant/erroneous issues.

The whole Occupy Wallstreet movement was of the same nature. It wasn't centrally organized and was without real leadership. And while most people involved were interested in fixing the things most of us are concerned about, there were the few anarchists and borderline-communists who got all of the media attention.

So in short, yeah there's going to be crazies. But they don't speak for the majority, and we don't have to validate them, nor should we.

Also, do you really need to use derogatory names? Not only does it come off as uninformed, it makes it seem as though you've made up your mind regardless of new things you may learn.

Then how is it really used?

The idea of classical liberalism is much closer to what we'd call libertarianism now.
There's also the idea of the political spectrum, where 'liberal' and 'conservative' on either extreme of the spectrum. By this way of thinking, a liberal want to have more freedoms, and a conservative wants to keep things the way they are. The far extremes (radical, reactionary) take these and push them further (a radical wants everything to be legal, a reactionary wants to go back to the laws of some point in the past).
Regardless, neither of these definitions has a liberal wanting to ban anything.

The problem comes when you try to say that the American Democrats are liberals and the American Republicans are conservatives. Each party is liberal in some ways and conservative in others. Even saying that one or the other is for 'small government' doesn't work, since each has policies that favor small government, and others which favor large government.
That was a very long reply, and thus, I don't have an adequate reaction gif to sum the whole thing up (not, at least, without seeming like a pretentious asshat); so please enjoy this magical helicopter.

mfw no face

Thanks man, cleared some things up.

in my opinion, completely left wing or completely right wing is really ignorant, I'll respect most people in the middle ground

its because you fuck with other people

Kinda strange how you allowed to buy a gun while completely drunk but if you try to drive home you'll get your ass handed to you.