Liberal is not a dirty word

What liberals are not

By raulito

The word liberal has received a bad rap among the conservatives and there are a lot of Americans out there who are misinformed and ignorant and will believe anything they hear on Fox News or what Rush Bouncy Bouncy Lindbaugh tells them.

I will tell you what LIBERALS are not:

We don’t believe in torturing our prisoners of war and denying them a fair trial.

We don’t take the country to war for the profit motives of the oil companies under the fabricated excuses and lies our government tells us and the world to go to war.

We don’t invade a foreign country, destroy their bridges and infra-structure to occupy their land to secure the oil interests, then we don’t need to spend billions of dollars repairing their bridges and infra-structure while ours collapse at home.

We don’t take away all regulations and laws that put some control on the banking and insurance industries for the mistaken ideology that they will do just fine without the government regulations. We don’t believe that the marketplace will correct itself and the law of reason and fair play will keep insurance companies honest.

We don’t believe that our President should be less intelligent than most of us, on the contrary, we want our President to be articulate, educated, pragmatic and above all not arrogant.

We don’t believe that government is the problem, only when it is in the hands of the Republicans does it become a problem.

We don’t believe in TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS because if you give tax incentives, subsidies and make concessions to the rich, they will hoard it and it never percolates down to the middle class and the poor.

We don’t believe that lobbyists are good for democracy. Why? Because they interfere by applying influence and pressure on the representatives the constituents elected to look out for their interests, not those of the lobbyists.

We don’t believe that this country is a Christian nation but a secular one and we are the most outspoken supporters of the Constitution in this respect. We know that the Founding Fathers were not in for favoring one religion over another or even the lack of one. Most signatories to the Declaration of Independence were either agnostics or Deists and the ones who were religious were the most adamant supporters of the concept of separation of church and state.

We don’t believe that you are looked upon God more favorably if you insert a penis in a vagina. Nor do we believe that the rights of people who are different than we are should be denied systematically because it does not fit our religious ideology.

We don’t think that being born on one side or the other of a particular river or body of water makes you any better or superior. Nor do we believe in white supremacy.

We don’t think that America is WASPH, (white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Heterosexual) America is built upon the concept of the melting pot where we celebrate the differences and diversity, that is one of our most precious values. “All men are created equal”

In case you think the word LIBERAL, PROGRESSIVE, DEMOCRAT has a negative connotation.

Is this what you want for America?