While the below probably fills it out better, I can sum it all up...Liberals like to have all these grand ideas paid for by someone else's labors....
Liberal:
A liberal is someone who supports liberalism, which is a political philosophy on the left of the political spectrum. Liberals favor an increase in government spending, power, and control, as in ObamaCare. Most liberals also support the censorship and denial of Christianity because of its strong moral values[1]. Liberals who are a part of the secular left prefer atheism over the Christian faith, as atheism has no objective morality to hinder its big government plans. This lack of an objective morality, or moral relativism, was used as one of the main justifications by the Nazis and the Communists for their crimes against humanity. Increasingly, liberals side with the homosexual agenda, including supporting homosexual "marriage". Many liberals favor a welfare state where people receive endless entitlements without working. Liberals are often anti-Christian, or otherwise disagree with moral or social principles held by many American Christians. The liberal ideology has worsened over the years and degenerated into economically unsound views and intolerant ideology. Some liberals simply support, in knee-jerk fashion, the opposite of conservative principles, while lacking an actual ideology or values of their own.
Polling data has consistently shown that a increasingly large percentage of Americans identify as conservative, rather than as liberal, currently by 38% to 21%.[2]
A liberal supports many of the following political positions and practices:
## Spending money on government programs (the significant economic problems in the Eurozone due to government debt will no doubt increasingly discredit this aspect of liberal ideology and make things more difficult for advocates of liberal economic ideologies)
## Government's ability to solve economic problems[3]
## The belief that terrorism is not a huge threat, and that the main reason for Muslim extremists' hostility towards America is because of bad foreign policy [4]
## Brainwashing voters with propaganda
## Taxpayer-funded and/or legalized abortion
## Censorship[5]
## Cessation of teacher-led prayer in classrooms and school/state-sponsored religious events.
## Gun control
## Anti-Americanism
## Affirmative action[6]
## Opposition to government regulation or restriction of obscenity, pornography and violence in video games as a First Amendment right[7]
## Government-funded medical care, such as Obamacare
## Belief in evolution
## Destroying the Christian foundations on which America was built on.
## Taxpayer-funded and government-controlled public education
## Placement of men and women in the same jobs in the military
## Slowly eroding the U.S. through Progressivism.[8]
## Legalized same-sex marriage and homosexual adoption
## Tax and spend economics
## Economic sector regulations[9]
## Spreading of political correctness
## Destroying liberty
## Ending Western morality
## Non-syndicalist labor unions
## Encouraging promiscuity through sexual education (the teaching of safe sex) rather than teaching abstinence from premarital sex[10]
## A "living Constitution" that is reinterpreted as liberals prefer, rather than how it is thought to have been intended.
## Government programs to rehabilitate criminals
## Abolition of the death penalty
## Environmentalism[11]
## Globalism
## Constitutionally mandated separation of church and state.
## Opposition to full private property rights.[12]
## Reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine
## Opposition to domestic wire-tapping as authorized in the Patriot Act
## Regulation of business rather than a laissez-faire capitalist economy
## Opposition to the Constitution. Liberals seek to expand federal power at the expense of local government and silence the conservatives who hold them back, violating the 10th and 1st Amendments respectively.
## Denial of traditional gender roles
## Support of financially irresponsible policies
## Advocating policies which are proven to be incorrect
## Encouragement of global warming alarmism
## Persecution of Christianity with deference to other religions, such as Islam.
Liberals currently use two Clauses of the Constitution to try to expand their power: the Commerce Clause and the General Welfare Clause. The General Welfare Clause mentions "promoting the general welfare". This to a liberal means taxing the rich at increased rates and redistributing that money. The Commerce Clause, on the other hand, says that Congress has the power to regulate trade with foreign nations, between the states and with the Indian tribes. Since the days of FDR this Clause has been interpreted very loosely and has resulted in the federal government expanding its power. The latest example is The Affordable Care Act (ACA), better know as Obamacare. In the ACA, the liberals justify the individual mandate by saying it regulates commerce between the states.
The decline in liberal principles can be illustrated by how Franklin Delano Roosevelt opposed and condemned public sector unions, stating that the idea of collective bargaining can't be transferred from the private to the public sector, as that would result in the government being unable to carry out its duties. Yet today, decades later, Democrats and liberals are in lock-step with public sector unions, as they "donate" money to the reelection campaign in exchange for more taxpayer money in their wallets and fluffed up pensions.
Current dictionaries describe the liberal ideology by pretending that a liberal is "a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties" or "a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets,"[13] or "open-minded or tolerant, especially free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc." or "favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, especially as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties."[14] In practical usage, the term "liberal" is more closely synonymous with "radical," "immoral," "anti-freedom," or "bad."
