I am a liberal. There is nothing wrong with being liberal. Conservatives in recent years have done a very very good job of demonizing the word liberal. If they or anyone who thinks being liberal is bad would stop to take a look at history, they would find that liberals have been great for America.
Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created social security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed every one of those programs.
President Abraham Lincoln was a liberal. A liberal Republican! President Wilson was a liberal, F.D.R. was a liberal. These three men make up what I consider to be the liberal trinity of our nations greatest leaders excluding the founding fathers, who were liberal too.
It burns me up that I cannot say that I am liberal without some Republican bashing and biting my head off. People should stop to think before they speak.
