why you should be a liberal

Post by **joe** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:25 pm

from joe conason's new book - a little reminder in history for people who seem to have forgotten it:

If your workplace is safe; if your children go to school rather than being forced into labor; if you are paid a living wage, including overtime; if you enjoy a 40-hour week and you are allowed to join a union to protect your rights -- you can thank liberals. If your food is not poisoned and your water is drinkable -- you can thank liberals. If your parents are eligible for Medicare and Social Security, so they can grow old in dignity without bankrupting your family -- you can thank liberals. If our rivers are getting cleaner and our air isn't black with pollution; if our wilderness is protected and our countryside is still green -- you can thank liberals. If people of all races can share the same public facilities; if everyone has the right to vote; if couples fall in love and marry regardless of race; if we have finally begun to transcend a segregated society -- you can thank liberals. Progressive innovations like those and so many others were achieved by long, difficult struggles against entrenched power. What defined conservatism, and conservatives, was their opposition to every one of those advances. The country we know and love today was built by those victories for liberalism -- with the support of the American people.

The most basic liberal values are political equality and economic opportunity. Liberals uphold democracy as the only form of government that derives legitimacy from the consent of the governed, and they regard the freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights as essential to the expression of popular consent. Their commitment to an expanding democracy is what drives liberal advocacy on behalf of women, minorities, gays, immigrants, and other traditionally disenfranchised groups.

Tasslehoff [eLa] · Post by **Tasslehoff [eLa]** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 6:32 pm

take the easy way out, move to canada

all your problems r solved when u become a canadian

well not all but u get the point..

Post by **joe** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 6:33 pm

what does canada have to do with my post? the easy way out of what?

{$.P.C.}SaVo420 · Post by **{$.P.C.}SaVo420** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 7:43 pm

Tasslehoff [eLa] wrote:take the easy way out, move to canada

all your problems r solved when u become a canadian well not all but u get the point..

You should read the post again, because apparently you didnt understand it the first time...Canada???? Did you even read the post?

:iLm: Baz · Post by **:iLm: Baz** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 9:36 pm

thank you liberals

F.D.Roosevelt · Post by **F.D.Roosevelt** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 10:01 pm

he meant that thats how it always is in Canada.