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tl;dr both sides are making massive assumptions about each other based on partial information from their favorite source of information.
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Thing one: A liberal will define what they perceive themselves to be, their stances and expectations of society either through private enterprise or public/gov't intervention. Example: Nationalized healthcare for all paid for with tax money. Everybody gets access to professional health services. This is simply one example (there are a lot more, this is simply one topic among many). Thing two: A conservative will define what they perceive themselves to be similar to above. However many conservatives want to limit the amount of gov't intervention (perceived as hand-outs). Using the example above, people that want to spend their hard earned money on healthcare can choose to purchase insurance but they object to being forced to pay taxes for it (weather they are directly paying taxes for it or not). Thing three and four are nearly identical but also polar opposites at the same time. Both conservatives and liberals project what they believe the opposite side stands for based on what they've been exposed to through various places (ie, websites, social media, broadcast news, etc.) Since you mentioned "liberal is used as a dirty word" first I'll offer what my conservative friends use liberal as (and please note, this is paraphrasing what my conservative friends say; NOT what I believe). Liberals fight for equality on all fronts through forced gov't intervention. Liberals don't think anybody should be held accountable for poor decisions in their past which leads to problems today and the future. Liberals want public funding for mentally ill people that are mentally ill because of decisions made in the past. The downtrodden made their bed (ie, did drugs in highschool) and have fried their brain to the point of not being able to hold down any sort of job; why should people that made good decisions throughout their life be made to support others bad decisions. Liberals also think anybody that "succeeded" in life only got there through liberal/social programs; not their own hard work. A conservative that works 80 hours a week and makes a lot of money should be able to keep and use their money as they see fit; not have it taxed into oblivion. Conservatives calling liberals "snowflakes" mostly stems from the belief that liberals call whatever gov't agency/authority to take care of any situation rather than deal with the situation themselves. Many conservatives would rather hash things out between themselves rather than call the police, city council, code enforcement, *insert any gov't agency here*. Conservatives think liberals will instantly call whichever outside gov't agency if there's any chance of an unfavorable resolution. The flip side to the above two paragraphs are what liberals perceive conservatives to be. Once again, paraphrasing what my liberal friends say about conservatives (NOT what I personally believe). Conservatives are a bunch of uneducated gun happy gruff assholes that wouldn't know social graces if it bit them in the ass. Conservatives just want to drive their earth destroying monster trucks and hunt everything into extinction. None of them care about poor people and don't understand how bad it is to tell people "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" when they've never needed help. Liberal cities also support their back-woods ways that let them have great public education, good roads and all the other amenities that go along with liberal policies. They're simply too stupid to admit they don't know how good they have it because liberals are paying taxes to support their way of life. Quote:
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Great post Blingy, thank you for expanding.
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