/sci/ - Science & Math

The names of popular political parties rarely match up with their actual beliefs.

>>3402585
>liberal
>name of political party
>mfw

>>3402593
Is where I come from, and liberals sure as hell don't believe in liberty

because liberals in america are just pseudo-communists who called themselves liberal to make their position seem enticing

they actually believe in government forcing equality and distributing wealth and other non liberating ideas.

>>3402597

define liberty

>>3402585
>>3402593
>mfw America has two major political parties
>one wants the country to be ruled by a democratically elected government
>the other doesn't want a royal family

Huh.

Americans cannot into etymology. This is just another example.

>>3402606
I see you are too stupid to use a dictionary. That is alright, I will do it for you.

lib·er·ty

noun /ˈlibərtē/ 
liberties, plural

The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views
- compulsory retirement would interfere with individual liberty

An instance of this; a right or privilege, esp. a statutory one
- the Bill of Rights was intended to secure basic civil liberties

The state of not being imprisoned or enslaved

>implying it is actually bad to be a liberal

>>3402603
>>3402597
Sure is Tea Party in here.

Why don't we just ask a liberal what they believe in?

>>3402623
why ask? just look at what they do in government:

-tax rich give to poor
-tax whites to give to blacks
-special loans for blacks at the expense of whites
-special grants for women at the expense of men
-ban light bulbs
-sugar, happy meals, salt

and the list goes on

>>3402640
>just look at what they do in government

Pretty much none of the people you deride for being liberals are even in the government...

>>3402651
umm... what? please try to make sense when you post

>>3402659
You label everyone within a certain ranges of political beliefs as liberals. That's millions of people and millions of different viewpoints that are not even in the government.

>>3402576
Its a game of double speak conservatives have been playing for a long time. They attack the name of some ideology or movement rather than the idea itself.

If you look at polling there are a large number of Americans who support liberal policies, but don't call themselves liberals because it has been beaten into them that that means pussy Marxist crybaby elitist un-American terrorist-supporter.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/122333/Political-Ideology-Conservative-Label-Prevails-South.aspx

The same thing happened with the word "hippy" decades ago. A hippy was anyone who was opposed to the Vietnam war, but now the idea of a hippy everyone has in their heads is a smelly unemployed lazy piece of shit that thinks they can solve the world's problems with a drum circle.