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Please explain: Liberal, Conservative, Left, Far Left, Right, Far Right, Tea Party, Independent views!?
As I grew up there were either Democrats or Republicans. Now the media has labeled everyone as one of the above mentioned categories. How can a President of any category appease everyone? they can't. As I grew up we were taught to vote and keep your vote private. Whomever is elected you are to support because that is the President of the United States. The bashing we see on the news media of the President ( be it Bush or Obama or whomever ) is just as bad as trampling on the American Flag. The President is elected to hold up that Flag and represent the United States of America...no just the conservatives, not just the liberals, not just the Republicans, not just the Democrats: but the United States of America. please explain why the media doesn't understand that as well!?!?
I may be old fashioned but my morals and ethics and respect far outweigh our media.
11 Answers
- Menard KLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
The labels are of only very limited use.
Fact is that in some peoples opinions of say the Military Industrial Complex
you could label them "liberal" however the same person may harbor ideas
about the role of faith in education that would get them labeled "conservative"
However to be totally frank, the labels are USELESS, and in fact worse than
USELESS!
Ever hear of Divide & Conquer?
- markLv 79 years ago
Those categories have always existed. It's just the labels that are more prominent. The meanness and disrespect has also bothered me. I've been voting for 35 years and ever since the 1994 election is when I have started seeing the disrespect and nastiness. Decorum has been thrown out the window. That's the real difference between now and then.
In terms of the media, they are merely following the lead of the nasty people and belligerent politicians on both sides of the aisle. While it may be bad for the country to propagate such divisiveness, it certainly is good for ratings. And, that's all they care about. I miss the days of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and Walter Cronkite. Honorable news casters that only reported news and stayed away from the opinion driven reality TV style news delivered today.
Also, for every one of those categories listed, you have a social and fiscal side. I might be considered a left leaning liberal socially but a centrist or a right leaning liberal fiscally.
Presidents will never please everybody. Everything a president does to help one group will probably hurt another group. So, like always, vote for the guy that matches the most or most important of your issues.
- Anonymous5 years ago
in my view, the main important replace got here from the Republicans. Democrats have traditionally been a coalition party, so the actuality that there are Socialists interior it (Democratic Socialists are component of the Democratic party's present day Caucus. For the checklist: they have very almost little say in truly coverage) and different left, left wing human beings isn't lots of a transformation. The Republicans, on the different hand, geared up a coalition of the religious staggering and fiscal Conservatives. The religious staggering had multiple say interior the party for a mutually as, somewhat throughout the Bush 2 years, and what we are seeing (back, in my view) are the economic conservatives attempting to take back the party. so which you're staggering that they are revamping their image when you consider that they are procuring and merchandising out one Conservative philosophy for yet another. whether that's a flow further to the main suitable or not is an argument of opinion. That being pronounced, i'm going to additionally say that, as a liberal, it sounds like multiple liberal innovations are being sacrificed to play ball with Republicans, who've toughened up and refuse to concede any of their factors in return.
- nostradamus02012Lv 79 years ago
all of these descriptions are designed to make the american voter think they actually have a choice when they vote, but in fact there is really very little choice.
when it comes to the continued fleecing of the american taxpayer all of the above are in perfect sync with one another.
no one wants to rock the boat so much that they, say, demand a line by line AUDIT of all spending by the federal govt. not just the totals - but the line by line itemized reality of where the money goes.
my guess is we are grossly overpaying for basic services.
for instance, we KNOW our armed forces in afganistan are paying $1,000.00 a gallon for gas.
we know this.
we KNOW that medicare part d is forbidden by law to bargain for better prices with the pharma companies.
we know this.
imagine what we DON'T know...
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- PatrickLv 79 years ago
Ok but our last president was a statist (Medicare part d, patriot act, no child left behind) and our current president is a Marxist who uses class warfare as his most powerful weapon.
- 9 years ago
Democrats are pretty much extinct.
We got Conservatives- mostly Christians now VS. The commies- Socialists, marxists and jihadists.
The world is on fire mainly because of the Jihadist movement. For some reason Washington thinks we have help the Jihadists movement and help them form A Caliphate in the Middle east for Shariah.
Nobody really knows whats going on, but this Islamic Spreading around world now - is super creepy,and scary! Africans are being attacked daily by these Jihadists- Indonesians- Tawain- India etc.. all get bombed by Jihadists now and to this govt we got now- they act like its normal? WTF?
- Anonymous9 years ago
People who want integrity, values and a future tend to be right wing.
People who have no conscience and set their moval standards low tend to be left wing. They also tend to be useless in the private sector and therefore rely heavily on government programs.
- sylvia cLv 79 years ago
it has also been said that when a government is honest and upright, there if very little unease in the country, whereas if a government is corrupt, there is strife, gangs, unrest and much controversy among the people.
- Anonymous9 years ago
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- Anonymous9 years ago
Kudos to you. Tough to argue with a real American.