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Originally Posted by remixFA  liberals dont read!! they might actually read the constitution then, or maybe pick up a nonlibby newspaper (they do exist) and read whats really going on instead of listening to Air america.... Liberals are out doing drugs and huggin trees. Non redneck concervatives like myself read.. thank you!! |
I do read. Thats why I know what the word liberal means and you dont. You have such a sad take on the word 'liberal' and I hate to see such good words misused. So I will educate you.
NOW PAY ATTENTION YOU AT THE BACK AND READ VERY CAREFULLY!! liberal
• adjective
1 willing to respect and accept behaviour or opinions different from one’s own.
2 (of a society, law, etc.) favourable to individual rights and freedoms.
3 (in a political context) favouring individual liberty, free trade, and moderate reform.
4 (Liberal) (in the UK) relating to the Liberal Democrat party.
5 (especially of an interpretation of a law) not strictly literal.
6 given, used, or giving in generous amounts.
7 (of education) concerned with broadening general knowledge and experience.
• noun
1 a person of liberal views.
2 (Liberal) (in the UK) a Liberal Democrat.
— DERIVATIVES liberalism noun liberality noun liberally adverb.
— ORIGIN originally meaning suitable for a free man: from Latin liberalis, from liber ‘free man’.
Link to liberalis
I am quite proudly Liberal and will be (hopefully) for the rest of my days.
Q. If you are not liberal what are you? A. A prisoner of the state and a prisoner of the mind.
The way you and many others like you use the word is not recognised as any of the above. And you call people liberals like its something to be ashamed of?
Is being a free, generous, forward thinking educated man anything to be ashamed of?