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    A more important question is just why socialists or social democrats feel they have the right to call themselves 'liberal' - the word had a long and proud history before the left decided to annex it, despite already having a plethora of more accurate ways of describing themselves.

    This is 'liberal' nowadays:

    In the US, the progressive cause has a firmer definition and a longer history (a history from which policies such as prohibition and eugenics have been largely written out). To see what the word progressive means today, consider the city of Berkeley, California. According to Robert Reich, a professor at UC Berkeley, it is ‘the most progressive city in America’. It has also been described as a ‘liberal bastion’. How liberal is it? So liberal that it is illegal to smoke a cigarette in your own flat (sorry, ‘apartment’) and, at the city’s university, it is against the rules to chew tobacco or use e-cigarettes anywhere at all, including in the open air.

    Berkeley is also seriously considering a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages – aka a ‘soda tax’. A public vote will settle the matter next month, and, in the view of Robert Reich, ‘if a soda tax can’t pass in the most progressive city in America, it can’t pass anywhere’.

    Consider that statement for a moment. If you didn’t know what the word ‘progressive’ meant – and you knew nothing about Berkeley – what could you infer from the context? If the sentence was changed to ‘if a soda tax can’t pass in the most oppressive city in America, it can’t pass anywhere’, it would make sense. If words like ‘tax-hungry’, ‘anti-business’, ‘puritanical’ or ‘illiberal’ were substituted for ‘progressive’, it would still read correctly.

    If, however, the sentence was changed to ‘if a soda tax can’t pass in the most tolerant city in America, it can’t pass anywhere’, it would be incongruous. Words like ‘permissive’, ‘libertarian’, ‘easygoing’ and ‘broad-minded’ would also be confusing substitutes for ‘progressive’ in this context, and yet these are all adjectives that appear in the thesaurus under the word ‘liberal’. From this we might conclude either that soda taxes are not terribly liberal or that progressives are not terribly liberal. Or both.
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    Enough of this leftist distortion of language.

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    Stacey Dash, the actress and star of the hit film "Clueless," has been employed by Fox News for less than six months, but this isn't the first time that she has made controversial remarks. Earlier this week, Dash suggested that each city in America set up Ebola "quarantine" centers to hold patients who could be at risk for virus.
    WTF? Why is that controversial? Are democrats against quarantining people who might have ebola???

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    Quote Originally Posted by russwest0
    this is the primary problem I have with MOST liberals (not all).

    they try way too hard to appeal to victims and throw around emotions and shit as opposed to dealing with facts. this shit accomplishes nothing other than inciting emotions from the weak. see the trayvon martin case or plenty of other examples.

    few things make me mad in this world but the liberal media pisses me off.

    He gets it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dresta
    A more important question is just why socialists or social democrats feel they have the right to call themselves 'liberal' - the word had a long and proud history before the left decided to annex it, despite already having a plethora of more accurate ways of describing themselves.

    This is 'liberal' nowadays:



    Enough of this leftist distortion of language.
    It's not that entirely black and white with regards to things like tobacco and sugar.

    In a country like America, if you are a person who has no health insurance, when you have a heart attack and go to the emergency room... Because you can't pay for your emergency care, it drives up the costs for everybody else in order for the hospital to make up the difference.

    When you are driving up the prices for the rest of us, it is everyone else's business if you're being carless with your own health. If you do pay or your insurance does, then it's nobody's business but your own.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dresta
    A more important question is just why socialists or social democrats feel they have the right to call themselves 'liberal' - the word had a long and proud history before the left decided to annex it, despite already having a plethora of more accurate ways of describing themselves.

    This is 'liberal' nowadays:



    Enough of this leftist distortion of language.
    lol That's their whole modus operandi. Their method is deception. They can't deal with or answer to the truth so they call the truth a lie, loudly and repeatedly, until the sheeple start to fall in step. Can a leopard change its spots? East is West, up is down, water is dry, a horse has no udders and a cow can't whinny.

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    You don't achieve the desired type of totality with intellectual honesty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dresta
    A more important question is just why socialists or social democrats feel they have the right to call themselves 'liberal' - the word had a long and proud history before the left decided to annex it, despite already having a plethora of more accurate ways of describing themselves.

    This is 'liberal' nowadays:



    Enough of this leftist distortion of language.
    Wait, they are anti-tobacco but they've also effectively banned e-cigs? Why would they do that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jailblazers7
    Wait, they are anti-tobacco but they've also effectively banned e-cigs? Why would they do that?
    Berkely CA AKA the town where PC Social Justice Warriors are given full totalitarian control to do whatever they want and force their ideals down everyone's throats. How "liberal"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jailblazers7
    NY
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    BOS
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    PRO
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    Hate to break it to you but most major cities are run by Dems. Which one of those are downtrodden? Voters are won over by policy not by article attacking fox news employees.

    Policy criticism is fine but crying about some liberal racial brainwashing BS is just stupid. You could argue that Dems "buy" votes through policy and that'd be at least a defensible argument.
    All those cities you mentioned have the poorest neighborhoods in the United States. Just because they're a big market does not = Everybody is bankin'.

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    Stacy Dash is a hot little Blaxican mamacita, I'd smash hard

    On this conservative vs liberal thing, that is such a waste of time, make up your mind. That whole shit is way played out and boring.

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    local politics are drastically different than national politics.

    First off, most mayors can't do sh*t. City Councils have all the power.

    Secondly, it's a million times easier to get elected to a city council position than it is to win an election for a federal seat.

    Thirdly, in many many many communities, city councilmen/councilwomen are idiots who have no clue what they are doing.

    Fourthly, individual municipalities simply do not have the type of policy making power that is typically at the heart of the liberal v. conservative debate. It goes Fed >>>> State >>>> County >>> City.

    Republican and Democrat is just a label and/or a source of income for the candidate in local politics. That's it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick Chewing
    All those cities you mentioned have the poorest neighborhoods in the United States. Just because they're a big market does not = Everybody is bankin'.
    That's just the reality of a city and it has been that way since their formation in the US.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick Young
    Berkely CA AKA the town where PC Social Justice Warriors are given full totalitarian control to do whatever they want and force their ideals down everyone's throats. How "liberal"
    Yeah, but I don't get why they would ban a "better" alternative to tobacco that really helps to eliminate some of the public nuisance of cigarette smoke. Kind of a weird policy choice.

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    Lol Republicans really don't live in reality. They honestly think they're some defenders of minorities.

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    Quote Originally Posted by longtime lurker
    Lol Republicans really don't live in reality. They honestly think they're some defenders of minorities.

    What is the reality then??


    That Liberals are?

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