republicans are gonna be the power party for awhile.
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republicans are gonna be the power party for awhile.
Shame!
relief.
If your on the inside, sure.
what do you mean if your on the inside?
Your glad Bush is president again because your another flag waving Republican. Every other country on Earth understands the bad decision you guys made. Obviously, you wouldn't understand.
I just had a quick rundown of the political forum and you were the last poster on 90% of the threads. Do you do anything else?
makes work go by fast.good entertainment!!
wierd,i doubt the people in the ukraine or the women in afghanistan or kuwait,poland,iraq would agree with you but thats your opinion.its a tough job,someones gotta do it.
Blue Cat-You ask "What's wrong with being a liberal?" Given the definition you present, there is nothing wrong with being a liberal. The problem is that that many so called "liberals" get so caught up in being "liberal" that they stop using common sense and stop thinking for themselves. They also tend to be the most vocal of "liberals" and are what gives liberals a bad name.
I live quite close to Berkely, the capitol of liberalism in America. Or at least most Berkely-ites like to think so. I have seen so many of them get way too caught up in trying to portray the image of the Berkely liberal. They all get together like good little liberals to go and protest their cause of the week. Many know very little about what they are protesting. It just becomes the hip thing to do and rather than think for themselves they just jump on the bandwagon with everyone else.
Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with someone believing in a cause and standing up for what tyou believe in. But know about what you are supporting/protesting, and really believe in that casue before you start ranting about something being right or wrong.
The other problem is that that many liberals take things too far. They react to issues based on how they feel they should react as a liberal rather without really looking at the facts and considering the issue first. For example, there has been a lot in the press around here lately about police using taser guns excessively. Obviously liberals and groups like the ACLU are all over it .When I actually sit down and look at the facts, however, most of the cases don't seem to be all that excessive to me.
Now I've had my share of run ins with the police and I know that they don't always treat people equally. I used to have hair down to my waist (I'm a guy) and drive around in a car covered in Dead stickers so trust me , I do know. There are a lot of bad people out there, however, and the police have to do something. If a cop zaps a guy whose freaking out and trying to attack the cop it is not excessive force. If they are chasing a guy who is known to be a violent criminal and he acts in an aggressive manner it is not excessive force. If that guy just happens to be black it is not racial stereotyping. Yes, sadly, there will be cases where it is but from what I've seen most of the time it's probably just a cop whose scared shitless and trying to protect him/herself. Many liberals, often the most vocal ones, would just start yelling police brutality without sitting down to look at the facts and think reasonably.
Now, please don't think I'm a conservative. Conservatives are just as bad. They're just far to the right. Actually, when it comes down to it they scare me a lot more than the liberals because the conservatives have god on their side. I'm an athiest so, no, I'm not worried about god per se. But when you look back at history and see what's been done in the name of god, the religious right becomes scarier than a child produced from the genetic milkshake of Freddy Kruger, Jason Vorhees, and George W.
The bottom line is that so many people have gone so far to the right or left that there is now a gaping hole in the middle and that hole is where common sense used to be.
It's very much a shared opinion in Europe. The next time you chat to one of your friends in those countries, tell them to humour us.Quote:
Originally Posted by amsterdam
like i said wierd,i lived in holland for two years and traveled all over including beirut,saudi arabia and morocco and never saw much drama.im sure you would find it hard to believe but most of the young people in the middle east support bush secretly.they hate the mullahs?as for europe,dont overexagerate,it aint as bad as you say it is.i am no untraveled american and have seen what it is like.it is nothing.