To be a liberal

“Yes, I’m a liberal and I’m sick of it being a bad word. I don’t know at what time in history liberals have stood on the wrong side of social issues. We thought that blacks should sit at the front of the bus, that women should be allowed to vote, that maybe McCarthy was a jerk, that Vietnam was wrong and strip-bombing Cambodia was probably stupid. We’ve been on the right side of all these issues.” --- George Clooney


And he is right, conservatives basic premise is that change, any change, is bad. In fact, if the republicans had their way, women, blacks, all minorities, for that matter, would cease having the right to vote as well as other rights.

As for the "original intent" argument regarding the constitution, they also believe that only white, male, real property owners deserve the right to vote and that slavery or indentured servitude is proper for it was allowed in the constitution produced at Philadelphia in 1787.

Conservatism, yet another synonym for elitism.

And before the wongnuts go on about the republicans who voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, remember this, a good number of southern democrats who opposed the act switched parties and became republicans in good standing as a result of the passage of that law. They followed the example set by Strom Thurmond some 15 years earlier.

The Republican Party, the party of the people? Please don't make me laugh.

Conservativism, the philosophy of the future? Please don't make me laugh.

In the words of FDR, "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward." From a radio address, Oct. 26, 1939.