here's my rant (not essay) on liberals (from a leftist perspective)
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--If you are a Liberal and cannot handle being told you're wrong, -please click here. -
--Also, I should say I am 17 years old. -The worst flames I've seen on-line have been towards Leftists, from Liberals. -Like, come on guys, give me a break. -No I'm not ever voting Democrat, but I'm also never voting Republican. -Yes, I know my opinions may change, but I am voicing my thoughts here. -This is in a rants/ folder for a reason. -
--The United States of America - the country in which I unfortunately reside - has a Liberal political party known as the Democratic party. -Most people choose to vote for Democratic or Republican (the Republican party is a Conservative party) candidates here. -Many of my acquaintances, most of my family (though I no longer associate with most of my family), and some of my friends are Liberal Democrats. -Liberalism is considered by many to be a politically left-wing ideology, and the alternative to Conservatism, as if the two ideologies are the only two that exist. -
--I am not a Liberal. I despise Liberalism. -I consider myself to be a Leftist and more specifically a Communist but I'm not entirely sure where My Preferred System would end up. -Fortunately that isn't my job, I just get to complain about those for whom it is. -
--So what is Liberalism? -The Wikipedia page for Liberalism, -which I will take at its word because in my experience most Wikipedia editors are themselves Liberal, -says the following: -
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-Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law.[1][2][3]
-Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles,
-but they generally support free markets, free trade, limited government,
-individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), capitalism, democracy,
-secularism, gender equality, racial equality, internationalism, freedom of speech,
-freedom of the press and freedom of religion.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
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That passage has a lot of citations so it's probably factually correct.
--That set of beliefs is very interesting. -Liberals - and my experience agrees - support Capitalism in its implementations, -yet they also support racial and gender equality -(and I end the list of equalities they support there; -I've met too many Liberals who do not support equal rights for homosexuals or gender nonconformists and trans-genders). -In my view it is impossible to achieve equality between the races or sexes within a Capitalist system. -Capitalism is itself a system of inequality, where Capitalists exploit the working class. -
--What victories have Liberals secured for minorities that haven't been tainted or forgone entirely by Capitalists? -The thirteenth amendment to the American Constitution banned slavery except as punishment for a crime. -We've now introduced "prisons", some built where slave plantations used to be, -that can provide contract workers to big businesses for pennies an hour, themselves run by companies that are -on the stock market. -We liberated women only to give them unfulfilling lives dependent on wages and to pay them less than their male counterparts for the same jobs. -
--Furthermore, many American Liberals, despite theoretically being for a smaller government, -support gun control, which not only disproportionately affects minorities* but is also deceitfully stupid. -Freedom must be defended by those it protects. -If we prohibit certain people (who have not committed any crimes) from owning certain firearms eventually that will come full circle. -
--I believe most Liberals are uneducated and would be Leftists if they understood Liberalism. -I also believe most "Leftists" as labelled by the media are Liberals - because why would you draw attention to those who oppose you? -And those who are educated but still Liberals either benefit from the system or were educated in the wrong things. -
--I don't know how to end this because it's just a rant. -Don't take me too seriously, those that do never fare well. -
--* A source I found for this is -here -but it's most definitely biased in favor of gun ownership. A better source is -here -and it's much better but I figured I should put a little disclaimer here because many of my sources are probably similarly biased. -
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