Are today's liberals shamefully weak?

[Big Money]

American liberals used to act on their beliefs.

Now it seems they wring their hands and deplore injustice, poverty and tyranny abroad and do nothing, except "pressure the government" to "pressure" other governments.

Yesterdays liberals were men and women of action.

Todays liberal is a mewling weak hypocrite who puts their personal comfort ahead of principles.

American liberals went to Spain and fought Fascism in the Spanish Civil War.

American liberals joined the Flying Tigers and fought Japanese imperialism in Asia.

American liberals to act. Now they posture and pretend they have to eradicate domestic injustice before worldwide issues can be dealt with.

They bloviate, blog, petition and post. They don't act.

What a cop-out.

Did Franklin Roosevelt claim he couldn't act to end poverty, hunger and want because other issues hadn't been made right?

Did Harry Truman deny the South Koreans aid when they were invaded because there was racism at home?

Today's liberal is a fraud, peddling weak sauce.

 

[Big Money]

Case in point:

After two prominent gay rights activists were murdered, a researcher with the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch in 2006 called the environment in Jamaica for such groups “the worst any of us has ever seen.” ...What is it you suggest be done?

Did the Lincoln Brigade dither like this?

 

[Timshel]

Case in point:

Did the Lincoln Brigade dither like this?

What are you doing?

 

[Big Money]

What are you doing?

I'm not a liberal, am I?

 

[Canceled.2014.1]

I'm not a liberal, am I?

So you are saying that conservatives do not care, have no passion for stopping injustice, and are complacent about the human rights horrors of the world?

 

[Big Money]

So you are saying that conservatives do not care, have no passion for stopping injustice, and are complacent about the human rights horrors of the world?

Is that what you think?

 

[Canceled.2014.1]

Is that what you think?

Well, your claim in the OP is that liberals either don't care about the problems outside the US, or that they are too weak to actually go overseas and confront them.

Since conservatives are not going overseas to confront any problems, which are they? Unconcerned or weak?

 

[Big Money]

Well, your claim in the OP is that liberals either don't care about the problems outside the US, or that they are too weak to actually go overseas and confront them. Since conservatives are not going overseas to confront any problems, which are they? Unconcerned or weak?

I don't know. Why don't you ask some?

 

[Canceled.2014.1]

I don't know. Why don't you ask some?

YOu are not a conservative? That is a surprise.

 

[Big Money]

YOu are not a conservative? That is a surprise.

Is it? Why?

 

[Canceled.2014.1]

Is it? Why?

I did not say "republican". Liberal and conservative are relative terms. You ARE on the conservative side of the political scene. I see that you choose to stop discussing the topic and go with the tried & true dodge of repeatedly asking a question. I have no problem with that. I simply shows you have surrendered.

 

[Big Money]

Today's liberals seem to lack the fire and grit displayed by past generations of Americans who - motivated by conscience - fought for what they believed in instead of engaging in endless 'feel-good' behaviors that accomplish little but boost ego and assuage guilt.

 

[I'm Watermark]

Yes, liberals are weak. They fail to enact policies in the interest of the vast majority of people. They could go for agrarian reform, minimum income, seizure and distribution of firms, democratization of government, and so on. But, no. They don't try to enact them, they don't propose them to anybody, they don't even talk about them.

So, once again, liberals are spineless - they're weak, and they can't be tolerated.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

So you are saying that conservatives do not care, have no passion for stopping injustice, and are complacent about the human rights horrors of the world?

Define "conservatives"? If by that you mean the members of the modern GOP conservative moment the answers would be no, yes, yes.

If by conservative you're talking about the average fiscally conservative, hump with the lights out Republican, I'd so, no, no, no.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Well, your claim in the OP is that liberals either don't care about the problems outside the US, or that they are too weak to actually go overseas and confront them.

Since conservatives are not going overseas to confront any problems, which are they? Unconcerned or weak?

Well yea but they're all strawman arguments anyways, so why debate a person who's proposing a discussion about a logical fallacy?

Patriass is just trying to marginalize those who don't agree with him. He's not an honest negotiator attempting to have an honest discussion. He doesn't give a crap about our point of view or probably anyone elses.