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Originally Posted by diogenes As for Liberalisim bieng emotional-I think that depends upon the person. Like I said I'm leiberal in many aspects but I also consider myself an extremely logical person where as I've heard conservatives, including yourself respond extremely emotionally to some issues and logically to others. We all have issues we feel passionatley about. |
We get pissed off because of the rapid rate that social change is happening. There is logic behind it. Liberal gov't policy is rooted in emotionalism. Take from the earners and give to those who didn't earn it to help them with their problems is a part of it. The consequences on society aren't considered in a logical, dispassionate way. In the big picture, you can't argue that welfare has been good for society. It has destroyed the family structure among poor people. You can see this plainly among blacks, and it was all done so that rich white liberals could feel better about themselves.
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Militant conservatisim I would catagorize as fundamentally religious, reactionary ( a fault on both sides), gun toteing, paranoid, homophobic, xenophobic, pro-military, 'my country-right or wrong' type people with an attiude that "liberal"="anti-American".
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I don't see a problem with that type of person. Those people bitch a lot, and vote their interests. What's the problem? At the founding of this nation, the individual freedoms we still enjoy were concieved, and established by christians with guns. I don't see any threat to my freedom from the ones that still exist.
Oddly enough, you also described the majority of Muslims with that. Why do you see a threat from fellow Americans with those attitudes, but not from Islamics?