LIBERALS GAVE CONSERVATIVES THE RIGHT TO BE SELFISH ANTI-AMERICAN FOOLS

You have to wonder how the term liberal came to be such a bad label here in America. Liberals founded the place and made all the good improvements. The dictionary defines liberal as, among other things; favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms, favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform, open minded, generous, open to change. None of these definitions are of the negative variety. According to the dictionary's completely neutral description, liberalism is depicted as a virtue. So how come so many people go out of their way to condemn liberals?

Perhaps it is because they can. In America it is their inalienable right to openly speak their minds, a right bestowed upon them by liberals. Maybe they always vote against any candidates for public office that they deem "too liberal," whatever that means. And by the way, they have liberals to thank for the right to vote, which in the early times in America was not a universal right. Only males with property could vote. Liberals also instituted compulsory education so they could read the ballot and write their names instead of making their mark with an X.

Many conservatives have also built substantial fortunes, once again thanks to liberals who insisted that in America everybody has a shot to fully participate and compete in our society. And for many years that right was denied to a significant portion of our society until liberals got busy and freed the slaves, gave women the right to vote and passed the Civil Rights Act. Many conservatives also got screwed over the years by rapacious corporations and robber barons, that is until liberals instituted safety and social safeguards for American workers. A pair of allied ultra-conservative governments in Germany and Japan once threatened to dominate the entire world with tyranny. They were well on their way to doing so until the Japanese made the grave error of bombing a liberal nation led by a liberal president, the United States of America.

Three and a half years later these two nations were completely defeated and their fascist policies repudiated forever. This liberal nation then proceeded to rebuild our former enemies' devastated nations, and today Germany and Japan are solid world citizens trading honestly with nations they once met on the field of battle. And these things mentioned here are but a few of the solid accomplishments of liberals, accomplishments that benefitted all Americans; liberal, conservative and middle-of-the-road alike. What history-making words and deeds can conservatives claim? What great leaders and statesmen come from their ranks? What movement for the advancement of humankind have they started? What noble ideas do they claim? You tell me because I can't think of a damned thing that conservatives have done except to block human progress.

Their tenure in the halls of power has generally been unremarkable, producing no great leaders or inspiring ideas, instead tending to suppress them. Possibly the most talented of the conservative American Presidents was Richard Nixon, a man of considerable intellect and ability but a paranoid nut who would disgrace his office and his nation. His many accomplishments were overshadowed by his foolish prosecution of the senseless and interminable Vietnam War, his pursuit of imagined domestic enemies and his unprecedented resignation from office. And he was the best of them. Where are the conservative Jeffersons, Washingtons, Lincolns and Roosevelts? You know, the guys who ensured at great personal and professional risk the right of conservatives to blow and blather and complain about the liberals. Liberals have always been the backbone and the best hope of America and humanity. You can look it up if you like.