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Rayn
Lv 5
Rayn asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 8 years ago

Why do Liberals take some credit and deflect blame?

Examples of taking credit:

Ending Slavery (Lincoln was a Republican)

Civil Rights Movement (MLK, the most important icon of the era, was a Progressive)

Examples of deflecting blame:

Criminalizing Illegal [Latino] Immigration (Labor Unions in the 1930s-1960s)

Operation Fast and Furious ("Spun" for anti-gun sentiment when they knowingly gave a cartel guns - when it was actual a collosal failure on their part)

Clinton... (Why did she keep the dress?)

It seems like they are quick to take credit for anything good that happens in the world but when they miss the mark, they are quick to deflect all responsibility onto other people.

I'll be the first to say that not every Conservative leader was had was great... but at least they took responsibility for the bullsh!t they started...

Hoover

Bush Jr./Sr.

Update:

Dave87gn:

Lincoln believed in free enterprise

Lincoln, being a business man, knew the benefits of private businesses.

Despite his numerous failures in business, he pressed on and tried again

Lincoln did not support the "Something for nothing" attitude paraded around by modern-day Liberals.

"[Lincoln believed] that men who are industrious, and sober, and honest in the pursuit of their own interests should after a while accumulate capital, and after that should be allowed to enjoy it in peace, to use it to save themselves from actual labor and hire other people to labor for them is right."

-Abraham Lincoln

He rewarded WORK. He did not provide something for nothing. He wanted slavery to end on simple principle, but he wanted them to fall into society as it was. Work is rewarded with money. If you have three kids, and you can't afford to feed them then get off your lazy *** and get to work. That is your penance for stupid decisions.

The Republican party of Linc

Update 2:

Dave87gn:

Lincoln believed in free enterprise

Lincoln, being a business man, knew the benefits of private businesses.

Despite his numerous failures in business, he pressed on and tried again

Lincoln did not support the "Something for nothing" attitude paraded around by modern-day Liberals.

"[Lincoln believed] that men who are industrious, and sober, and honest in the pursuit of their own interests should after a while accumulate capital, and after that should be allowed to enjoy it in peace, to use it to save themselves from actual labor and hire other people to labor for them is right."

-Abraham Lincoln

He rewarded WORK. He did not provide something for nothing. He wanted slavery to end on simple principle, but he wanted them to fall into society as it was. Work is rewarded with money. If you have three kids, and you can't afford to feed them then get off your lazy *** and get to work. That is your penance for stupid decisions.

The Republican party of Linc

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Democrats will have to wear slavery and their opposition to Civil Rights as an albatross around their necks until their party dies. Hopefully that will happen sooner than later.

    Their modern blaming of Republicans for the actions of Democrats is disgusting. Democrats are the ones with a history and record of racism. Republicans have a record of anti-racism and continue to attack policies that favor or disfavor one race over another.

  • Arnie
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The trouble with liberals is just that they know so much that isn't so.

    The Liberal ideology is a theory , fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and which holds forth beliefs that have no basis in reality.

    Criminals don't pay any attention to laws... If guns were ever banned than only the bad guys would have them..Criminals prefer unarmed victims!!

    Having a gun will not help all the time but being defenseless will never help..

    Calling 911 and asking the bad guy to wait is not a viable option.

    Better to have a gun and not need it than to need it and not have it!!!

    Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens.

    Arnie

  • 8 years ago

    It is the liberal way. It seems everytime you turn on the liberal news channels, they are still talking about President Bush! In hindsight, President Bush was one of the better President's of our day! Liberals do not own up to anything, and that is why Obama is still being protected by the mainstream media.

    Republicans have always been the defenders of personal freedoms and rights. Always. Can't change the history books, unless you are a liberal! LOL!

  • 8 years ago

    Being a leftist means never having to say you are sorry...

    They always want credit fir their intentions, but never for the results.

    For the"you never give any specifics crowd" - The Great Society, Billions spent, no real change in poverty other than destroying work ethic and making millions addicted to government "help".

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Because they love doing things that the general us public would hate such as the cute little new gun ban that they believe criminals will follow, anyway so they have to say it is the republicans fault because of they didnt then as alex jones said, "1776 will commence again"

  • 5 years ago

    You are so correct, republicans threatening to default on our debt had absolutely nothing to do with the credit downgrade. Creditors are known for being forgiving when men and women refuse to pay up.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    because Liberals are hypocrites.

    It's like when they protest against corporations, but at the same time hail Obama for bailing out General Motors.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Why is it all about who freed slaves and black and white all the time. Politics aren't very nice around here. I was at a more civil site. Then they started the same. I don't know where there is peace.

  • 8 years ago

    wow, I guess there is a place from which there is no hope of a return to reality.

  • 8 years ago

    We grow weary of explaining that the republican party of Lincoln has nothing to do with the republican party of today

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