Wasn't is G.W. Bush who said "you're either with us or against us?"
Is there a statement made by a world leader more intolerant of others than that?
Context fool. Context.
Wasn't is G.W. Bush who said "you're either with us or against us?"
Is there a statement made by a world leader more intolerant of others than that?
That's what the author of the article below (linked) says.
I think it's probably accurate. Using this forum as one example, one can find many posts by liberals here that just seethe with hatred of Republicans. My suggestion to those posters would be to stop calling them names and saying vicious things about them and, instead, engage them in a respectful dialogue. I encounter more than a few liberal posters who consider themselves to be morally superior to conservatives and who speak of conservatives as if they're evil, sub-human cockroaches that should just be squashed. As they say, nobody hates like the enlightened, tolerant, loving left!
Here's an excerpt from the linked article below:
The new research found that instead of engaging in civil discourse or debate, fully 16% of liberals admitted to blocking, unfriending or overtly hiding someone on a social networking site because that person expressed views they disagreed with. That's double the percentage of conservatives and more than twice the percentage of political moderates who behaved like that.
Blog: Liberal intolerance, by the numbers
I think the problem I'm having with this thread is that you seem to be conflating liberals as a whole with "liberal politicians." The two populations are not one and the same. On the one hand you have a group of people, arguably between 30 and 40 percent of the population, who have vastly divergent viewpoints that center on a core of common themes. On the other hand you have people who make their livings serving in public office.
When you say "liberals are less tolerant of the views of others" you're not just talking about politicians - you're talking about bankers, bakers, stay-at-home moms, lawyers, gardeners, farmers, school teachers, and yes, politicians. Then, on top of it, you set up an argument that assumes that "tolerance" is a virtue.
Well, as vince pointed out so eloquently, tolerance is NOT a virtue a lot of liberals admire. Nor is it something a lot of us seek. I, for one, don't want Michele Bachmann to tolerate my homosexuality. In fact, I think she already tolerates is just fine. She is, in fact, still alive, no matter how gay I am. That's tolerance. What I want from her is acceptance. I am who I am, and she needs to accept that. When it comes to economic policy, I prefer the economic system of our founding fathers. If the agrarian economic system was good enough for them, and so many of our non-economic policy is still based on working with the agrarian economy, I don't see why it can't be good enough for us! But, I guess, that really makes me a conservative who's just out of his time.
*shrug*
In any case, I'm not a politician. I don't like being lumped in with them. They do the job they do, wether I agree with them or not, and I do the job I do. Please stop taking your distaste for politicians out on me.
Well, if you're willing to overlook the fact that you'll be voting for an anti-gay bigot because you view the government's taxation of the heavenly "job creators" as an unforgiveable attack on liberty that's your prerogative. And you know you'll be voting for Mitt Romney, not Meghan McCain, right?
I believe this country needs a great CEO. Obama is NOT. Romney might or might not be but will most certainly be a drastic improvement over Obama who has been a catastrophic FAILURE as POTUS.
Do you believe Romney is a bigot?
I believe this country needs a great CEO. Obama is NOT. Romney might or might not be but will most certainly be a drastic improvement over Obama who has been a catastrophic FAILURE as POTUS.
You seriously are asking if someone who supports a constitutional amendment to US constitution to ban gay marriage is a bigot or not? And if it weren't for daddy's money and having no qualms about stealing from people's pension funds to add to his back pocket in the companies he "saved", he wouldn't be such a "success". It sounds like you'd vote for Joe the Plumber, or anyone as long as they're not Obama.
On the "Thinker?" I just clicked a story and found this peevish hatchet job on Michelle Obama. I mean, how horrible do you have to be to write that?
I must admit I wasn't aware that Romney supported such a thing. That's disappointing to hear.
That's what the author of the article below (linked) says.
I think it's probably accurate. Using this forum as one example, one can find many posts by liberals here that just seethe with hatred of Republicans. My suggestion to those posters would be to stop calling them names and saying vicious things about them and, instead, engage them in a respectful dialogue. I encounter more than a few liberal posters who consider themselves to be morally superior to conservatives and who speak of conservatives as if they're evil, sub-human cockroaches that should just be squashed. As they say, nobody hates like the enlightened, tolerant, loving left!
You're welcome: and I mean that completely seriously. I do so wish, however, that you'd relent on Pat Buchanan's Culture Wars.Thanks for the kind words.
I agree. I've never encounted more racist, bigotted, close-minded, anti-intellectual, name calling group of people in my life than the liberals on this board.
Well, as vince pointed out so eloquently, tolerance is NOT a virtue a lot of liberals admire. Nor is it something a lot of us seek. I, for one, don't want Michele Bachmann to tolerate my homosexuality. In fact, I think she already tolerates is just fine. She is, in fact, still alive, no matter how gay I am. That's tolerance. What I want from her is acceptance. I am who I am, and she needs to accept that. When it comes to economic policy, I prefer the economic system of our founding fathers. If the agrarian economic system was good enough for them, and so many of our non-economic policy is still based on working with the agrarian economy, I don't see why it can't be good enough for us! But, I guess, that really makes me a conservative who's just out of his time.
*shrug*
In any case, I'm not a politician. I don't like being lumped in with them. They do the job they do, wether I agree with them or not, and I do the job I do. Please stop taking your distaste for politicians out on me.
I believe this country needs a great CEO.
That's what the author of the article below (linked) says.
I think it's probably accurate. Using this forum as one example, one can find many posts by liberals here that just seethe with hatred of Republicans. My suggestion to those posters would be to stop calling them names and saying vicious things about them and, instead, engage them in a respectful dialogue. I encounter more than a few liberal posters who consider themselves to be morally superior to conservatives and who speak of conservatives as if they're evil, sub-human cockroaches that should just be squashed. As they say, nobody hates like the enlightened, tolerant, loving left!
Here's an excerpt from the linked article below:
The new research found that instead of engaging in civil discourse or debate, fully 16% of liberals admitted to blocking, unfriending or overtly hiding someone on a social networking site because that person expressed views they disagreed with. That's double the percentage of conservatives and more than twice the percentage of political moderates who behaved like that.
Blog: Liberal intolerance, by the numbers
Do you believe Romney is a bigot?
I believe this country needs a great CEO. Obama is NOT. Romney might or might not be but will most certainly be a drastic improvement over Obama who has been a catastrophic FAILURE as POTUS.