Of course you are a liberal. Doesn't matter what you claim.
It's a recurring theme with your kind... When you don't understand something, which happens often, you go full retard and refuse to believe what the other person is telling you. If I were a classical liberal, which is what you are referring to, I would have no problem admitting to that. I can't really find any reason not to.
I am an anarchist. I don't believe in government, leaders, representatives, alpha males,
et cetera. I understand that we are communal beings, always have been (even when we were monkeys,) and any deviation from the communal group context (cities, states, countries, economic zones,
et cetera) is doomed to fail. Not because they are bad socio-economic systems, but because when they are applied to human beings they do fail eventually.
NOW, I do live in a country based on laws and contracts, and I do understand that the majority of people do want to live in this system, so I have no choice but to accept it and adapt, which I've done (kind of like Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes). But this does not take away from me wanting to do what I would do if I were to live in a government-less communal environment, like helping the poor, elderly, the incapacitated, giving kids a free education,
et cetera.
You hold the positions associated with the left.
No, I actually am more right than you think. You'd be surprised how issues I actually agree with the Tea Baggers on.
Liberals from some reason are often ashamed to admit they are liberal whereas conservative, though demonized by the majority, have no problem affirming where their values lie. Let me guess, you call yourself an independent yet there are very few actual positions associated with the right that you subscribe to.
See previous response.
Nonetheless you betray yourself by simply the way you debate. Your arguments are emotion based so you don't engage in rational exchange but simply emote. I disagree with the minimum wage and present my reason for doing so. The belief in economic freedom and that in any transaction the only people who should be making the decisions are the buyer and the seller. This applies whether i you are buying or selling a pair of shoes, a loaf of bread or someone's labor. You take personal offense to this and the insults and ad hominem attacks soon surface. Whereas I believe that your position is simply wrong I in no way consider it a statement on your humanity or decency. You believe that I am not only wrong but a bad and evil person and have ill will towards me. That I want people to suffer and starve to death. Just look at your angry and vindictive avi comment" "conservatives should be hung by the balls." I don't want hang any liberal hung by the balls. I just don't want them making social policy.
Au contraire mon ami, I've actually given you arguments to respond to. The main problem is that they went right through you because you really are not into reading. Please do not take it as an insult. To me an insult is to call someone an idiot even though the person was not acting in an idiotic manner. Whenever you call someone something based on their actions, e.g. "stupid" to someone acting really stupidly, it's an observation, not an insult.
I do not believe in "economic freedom" or "the market". So I really do not know if you want to meet me in the middle because it's a big gap.
And I actually am balls-deep in "the market", not because I think it's a great place to make money, which is to some, but because I see it as a casino and I go in knowing what my odds are. I made a lot of money thinking this way.
Cheers.
