Liberalism 101 : How to be a Liberal

[jobs1stb4polarbear]

Here is a list of terms liberals apply to virtually every idea or action with which they differ:

Racist
Sexist
Homophobic
Islamophobic
Imperialist
Bigoted
Intolerant

And here is the list of one-word descriptions of what liberals are for:

Peace
Fairness
Tolerance
The poor
The disenfranchised
The environment

These two lists serve contemporary liberals in at least three ways.

First, they attack the motives of non-liberals and thereby morally dismiss the non-liberal person.

Second, these words make it easy to be a liberal -- essentially all one needs to do is to memorize this brief list and apply the right term to any idea or policy.

Third, they make the liberal feel good about himself -- by opposing conservative ideas and policies, he is automatically opposing racism, bigotry, imperialism, etc.

The left, chronically bereft of ideas, has the above shortcut to acutal thinking; since not being able to mindlessly protest and think at the same time is a big drawback for their movement. They compensate for this intellectual shallowness by being more passionate... which is all the moral virtue they require to maintain their overweening sense of superiority.

www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/05/14/liberal-thought-police-lagarde-hgtv-benham-free-speech-column/9098133/

[rrisley]

I could reply by pointing out that conservatives have been fighting a constitutional issue by stating their own religious beliefs and why their rights end where your own religion begins.
Not that I'm exactly a liberal, however dismissing all liberals by saying they lack any real intelligence and replace it with passion is an ad hominem attack on them without any facts to back it up.
If you want government to stay out of your religion, don't put your religion into government.