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Why do conservatives assume liberals support everything Obama does?

First, before you guys start crying "where is the liberal outrage over Syria?", let me make something perfectly clear:

I am against going into Syria.

I am as against going into Syria as I was Iraq, Afghanistan and everywhere else we've invaded in the past decade.

I will continue to speak out against war and attend anti-war protests no matter who is president.

And while I'm clearing things up, let me also say that I am against government spying, prosecuting whistleblowers, the police state, and a long laundry list of other things Obama is doing. The difference between you and me is that I have always been against these things, whereas most of you are only against them now that Obama is president.

So my question is, are you actually paying attention to what's going on, or do you just assume that if conservatives are against something (now, because you hate Obama, even though you were for it under Bush), that means liberals automatically love it?

And would you please stop doing that? Thanks.

Update:

@LibertyLover: anarcho-socialism IS a liberal philosophy.

Democrat does not automatically mean liberal.

Update 2:

@DinDjinn: because they talk about it all the time. I'm constantly seeing, "why do liberals love [insert thing Obama is doing that liberals don't actually love]?" and "where are the liberals now that Obama is doing [insert thing conservatives praised Bush for that they suddenly realize is bad now that Obama is doing it]?"

Answer: I'm right here! I protested government corruption then and I'm protesting it now. I haven't changed my positions on anything, and yet conservatives continue to falsely accuse liberals of doing the very thing they themselves are guilty of. The only two explanations are: they are consciously lying out of malice, or else they are making some willfully ignorant and wildly unfounded assumptions because they can't bear the idea of admitting that liberals were actually right about something after all.

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    They project. They see everything they do in everybody else.

  • Arnie
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan

    The Liberal ideology is a theory which holds forth beliefs that have no basis in reality.

    They are Advocates of a policy that empowers a strong government to enslave its people with a high tax burden incident to the support of extravagant and unnecessary social programs destructive to both the work ethic among the lower class, and the incentive to innovate and succeed among the working class.

    The problems we face today are because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.

    A democracy will continue to exist up until

    the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous

    gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority

    always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from

    the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally

    collapse over loose fiscal policy

    A broken government can't be fixed by the same government that broke it.

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  • 8 years ago

    Because you can mention any of the numerous things that Obama has done that goes against liberal ideology and you will find a liberal that supports it.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    The far right follows the herd. They think that everyone else does, too.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    His approval rating with Democrats is over 80%

  • PoBoy
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    That is their narrative. But, most commenter's here call Obama a "C" at best. That's what I give him, C, perhaps C-.

    But I voted for him 2X. Why? He was, is and will be forever, the best choice. Want me to consider the GOP? Stop nominating haters, misogynists and homophobes.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    But you label yourself an social anarchist not liberal.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    For me it is seeing them in herds Chanting Obama Obama Obama Obama.

    Source(s): CAREER POLITICIANS ARE DESTROYING THIS NATION DEMAND 6 YEAR TERM LIMITS
  • 8 years ago

    How do you assume you know what conservatives assume?

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    How is it that you can oppose what he does without being called a racist but I can't?

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