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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 6 years ago

is it true that the quality of life improvements for most people has been brought about by Liberalism....?

if it weren't for Liberals 10 year old kids would still be working down some billionaires mineshaft for a dime a week until they died at 18 from Emphysema...?

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  • 6 years ago
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    That was much more a product of increased technology and productive capacity leading to the elimination of demand for child labor and riskier manufacturing practices. Things which are fueled by the incentives within a free market. if you want to consider free markets "liberal" (which historically speaking we should) then I guess so. But it hasn't at all come from modern nanny state liberalism.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    Liberalism is a mindset and cannot do anything at all. People do things, so what you are suggesting is that pretty much only Liberals have made advances in society. I don't agree.

    Today, Liberalism is usually manifested in force of guns to collect taxes and regulate (tell people not to do things) to be used to redistribute wealth. These are not methods to accomplish-they are the opposite.

    Classical Liberalism was responsible for the biggest boom in man's history but that is long gone. Today's Liberals hate Classical Liberalism.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Yes classical liberalism, like the founding fathers. Today's hipster, coomunifascists liberal (don't know how they manage to pull that off but they do) are more liken to PC and health nazis that want to shelter the world from the world than actual liberals. Today they would be called libertarians so yes we libertarians are responsible.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    No that would be the Doctors who brought it to light. They at that time were not funded by the Government. They were paid with eggs and spare change and sometimes not at all. It was the REDNECKS, who came down from the Mountains with guns to secure the mines and to allow that change. Hardly any thing close to liberals

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    If it weren't for liberals the sun wouldn't shine and the tides wouldn't come in. Please. Whatever happened in the past has NOTHING to do with the modern liberal. The modern liberal is a filthy America hating sexually degenerate greedy disgusting sociopathic pig. Like you.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    No. I'm pretty sure your Liborat buddies love it that all of those jobs got shipped to India and China where they don't have to see it until they get caught.

  • 6 years ago

    perhaps those without jobs, yes. the difference is most socialist societies as the one Obama craves care little about the hard work, entrepreneurial spirit or innovativeness needed to create improvement of quality of life.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Even though libs love to claim that, in almost every case the trends were already going in the direction the libs claim. Were the results of their actions.

  • 6 years ago

    Yeah it did. Workers rights, environmental regulations, abortions for unwanted pregnancies, welfare for the needy, and the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1968 were all liberal achievements.

    ~Aizen

  • 6 years ago

    False.

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