Furthermore, how is labeling liberalism as a "sickness" or as a "mental problem" being open-minded?
That makes zero sense.
In my experience, the following tends to be true:
liberals see the world in shades of grey, realizing that any question or issue potentially has a number of answers and/or solutions.
conservatives tend to seek a black n white world in which every question has a concise, clear-cut solution.
I'd like for that to be the case, but I just don't think it accurately represents the realities of the world. Heck, as I see it, only true mathematics can be seen in black and white (2 + 2 will always = 4, regardless of what names you give these values). All else is relative. And that causes problems for most.
With all of this said, there are, of course, the waaaay left radicals (peaceniks, etc) who have no conception of reality. The media, of course, loving a good story, amplifies the foolishness that these folks exhibit, thereby giving libs, in general, a bad name.
As an aside, America was created on progresssive, liberal values (mostly). The idea of democracy, representation, free speech, freedom of religion, etc.. The conservatives of the day didn't want to break away from the mother country...the idea of independance was anathema to them. However, it late 18th century was one of Western civilizations truly great, progressive periods and reason won out. Heck, the debate leading up the writing of the constitution was calling for the abolishment of slavery then - 80 years prior to the Civil War, but the Northern folks gave in to the demands of the Southern aristocrats.
That makes zero sense.
In my experience, the following tends to be true:
liberals see the world in shades of grey, realizing that any question or issue potentially has a number of answers and/or solutions.
conservatives tend to seek a black n white world in which every question has a concise, clear-cut solution.
I'd like for that to be the case, but I just don't think it accurately represents the realities of the world. Heck, as I see it, only true mathematics can be seen in black and white (2 + 2 will always = 4, regardless of what names you give these values). All else is relative. And that causes problems for most.
With all of this said, there are, of course, the waaaay left radicals (peaceniks, etc) who have no conception of reality. The media, of course, loving a good story, amplifies the foolishness that these folks exhibit, thereby giving libs, in general, a bad name.
As an aside, America was created on progresssive, liberal values (mostly). The idea of democracy, representation, free speech, freedom of religion, etc.. The conservatives of the day didn't want to break away from the mother country...the idea of independance was anathema to them. However, it late 18th century was one of Western civilizations truly great, progressive periods and reason won out. Heck, the debate leading up the writing of the constitution was calling for the abolishment of slavery then - 80 years prior to the Civil War, but the Northern folks gave in to the demands of the Southern aristocrats.
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