This is for all of you liberals

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be very liberal, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch conservative, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.
Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Audrey doing?" She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over."
Her father asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That's a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!"
The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, "Welcome to the conservative side of the fence."
If you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him..
If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and Jesus silenced.
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.. A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
If a conservative reads this, he'll post it. A liberal will delete it because he's "offended."

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SatanBurger · 36-40, F

The irony of what you said was that the farther end you go to on a political spectrum, the more extreme. The far right tends to be more nationalistic the farther down it goes and the farther down the rabbit hole you go, the more of a nut you seem to be. But yet this post is only about liberals because clearly by your own statement if a conservative doesn't like something, they just don't bother and act respectfully. But the news and everything else and the actions people have taken say otherwise 🤣

Some of these are somewhat true and some of these are outright false.

I'm liberal and pro gun rights, I'm also liberal and pro meat.. ketovore. I do support hunting and regenerative agriculture. The one thing I agree with vegans on is factory farming but that's about it. I do think vegans are too political for me to really think their diet is "just" a diet, they even say so themselves. I support unions and think we should have more of them, even for sex work with the only exception being police unions because of the imbalance of power but I also support small business owners and farmers. I think that you can be in an open relationship and be happy, I also think you can be in a traditionalist relationship and be happy. I think there should be more of a push for locally owned small businesses too 💁‍♀️

But there's things that are just out right false:

[quote]If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.[/quote]

That's not true. I remember [b][c=BF0000]snowflakegate[/c][/b] at Starbucks with conservatives, heck a bunch of authors like Martin Luther King were banned at school libraries until it was reinstated during the critical race theory panic at schools. There were over 300 black authors banned. There's literally so many events of both political parties wanting things banned just cos hurt feelings.

Conservatives will teach their kids their own values which is technically indoctrination by their own definition and then shame liberals for doing the same.

[quote]If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him..[/quote]

[quote]If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.. A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.[/quote]

I feel like both those statements are alluding to right winged propaganda of "if you support welfare, you want to give everything away for free." Which is the same thing as vegans saying "if you eat meat, you support murder." It's distorting people's original positions when there's more that's talked about and issues can hardly be summed up as simple as that.

Furthermore, [b][c=BF0000]more conservatives are on welfare than not[/c][/b], I know because my state is a redneck state and most of you are on social programs so I know your statement is outright false. It's hilarious because if you looked at their facebook pages they have all the right winged buzzwords and memes on it but they'll use state money and not work.

Why? Because being a liberal or a conservative clearly isn't a character personality trait save except for stereotypes which exist for a reason but it's a very small minority.

Secondly, most homeless people are thinking about either hustling or food, like they don't really worry about being conservative or liberal. You'd never know who was conservative or liberal cos they're more worried about other things. I'm not saying that people can't be political but they're usually too worried to go engage in debates online at any large amount of time and have the first world privilege of worrying if some stranger on the internet is pro choice or believes in God.

You can be conservative or liberal all you wanted to, guaranteed that goes all out the window with poverty.

Most homeless are trapped within a cycle, homeless shelters will entrap you, most jobs won't give you a chance, lack of mental health resources and stigma all contribute to homeless people's problems. I would love for you to recognize this fact.

[quote]If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and Jesus silenced.[/quote]

That's not true because the United States has a long track record of discriminating against other religions and non religious people in Govt positions, schools and other things. These things can be looked up quite easily on Google.

If you're talking about atheists, there's conservative atheists out there too just like there's conservative gay people and conservative trans people.