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Was liberalism rejected in the midterms?

Was liberalism rejected in the mid term elections?

  • Im a right leaning American, yes.

    Votes: 14 21.5%

  • Im a right leaning American, no.

    Votes: 12 18.5%

  • Im a left leaning American, yes.

    Votes: 3 4.6%

  • Im a left leaning American, no.

    Votes: 32 49.2%

  • Im a not American, yes.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Im a not American, no.

    Votes: 4 6.2%
  • Total voters
    65
cpwill said:
Heck Yeah She Does! Nobody, but nobody, knows the struggles and travails of the regular American nor how to defeat them by getting banks to write their own regulation like uber-wealthy Harvard professors who utilize fake minority status to glide themselves up the socioeconomic stratosphere.
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Brilliant! Thats why wall street is no longer giving heavily to Democrats. Simply brilliant.
 
Hari Seldon said:
Brilliant! Thats why wall street is no longer giving heavily to Democrats. Simply brilliant.
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:) Wall Street isn't giving to Democrats? Who do you think is paying for Hillary '16?
 
cpwill said:
:) Wall Street isn't giving to Democrats? Who do you think is paying for Hillary '16?
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Not Wall street anymore. Seems they aren't happy about having to actually obey some kind of regulation. Not to worry the repugnicons won't enforce anything. The banks will be able to do as they please and with their size we will have no choice but to bail them out.
 
US Conservative said:
There was so much wrong in that post, I'd have to spend an hour on it. Im not willing to do that. :cool:
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You don't have to....your mindless rhetoric and inability to argue the issues is well documented.
 
Hari Seldon said:
Not Wall street anymore. Seems they aren't happy about having to actually obey some kind of regulation.
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:lamo

Dude. Wall Street loves regulations. Who do you think writes them? :lol:

Not to worry the repugnicons won't enforce anything. The banks will be able to do as they please and with their size we will have no choice but to bail them out.
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Seriously, man. Why do you think Wall Street is paying Hillary for all those speeches? Do you think it's the brilliance of her diction?
 
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no poll option for me since im independant

"Poll: Was liberalism rejected in the mid term elections?"

in general no, it was simply a pendulum swing just like it was for clinton, bush and reagan
 
US Conservative said:
The fatal flaw of liberalism, is that it must sacrifice the freedom of the individual for the state. Thats why even the term "liberal" is a misnomer. When it inevitably comes down to that choice-freedom or the state, the liberal chooses the state.

This is one of the skeletons in the closet the left needs to deal with. I'd like to think this election brought that home, but I doubt it-especially after the sad excuses Ive heard up to this point.
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The fatal flaw of conservatism is that it must sacrifice the freedom of the individual for the state. When it inevitably comes down to that choice-freedom or the state, the conservative chooses the state. This is why conservative politicians support government regulation of marriage, reproductive health, alcohol (Blue Sunday laws), medical marijuna, adult entertainment, etc. This is one of the skeletons in the closet the right needs to deal with. I'd like to think the surging popularity of Ron Paul and the last two presidential elections brought that home, but I doubt it-especially after the sad excuses Ive heard up to this point.
 
Leeburte said:
The fatal flaw of conservatism is that it must sacrifice the freedom of the individual for the state. When it inevitably comes down to that choice-freedom or the state, the conservative chooses the state. This is why conservative politicians support government regulation of marriage, reproductive health, alcohol (Blue Sunday laws), medical marijuna, adult entertainment, etc. This is one of the skeletons in the closet the right needs to deal with. I'd like to think the surging popularity of Ron Paul and the last two presidential elections brought that home, but I doubt it-especially after the sad excuses Ive heard up to this point.
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Oh noes no beer on sundays! Its JUST LIKE liberalism. :doh
 
US Conservative said:
Oh noes no beer on sundays! Its JUST LIKE liberalism. :doh
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free·dom noun \ˈfrē-dəm\

a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action

Many people need to relearn what that word means.
 
Leeburte said:
The fatal flaw of conservatism is that it must sacrifice the freedom of the individual for the state. When it inevitably comes down to that choice-freedom or the state, the conservative chooses the state. This is why conservative politicians support government regulation of marriage, reproductive health, alcohol (Blue Sunday laws), medical marijuna, adult entertainment, etc. This is one of the skeletons in the closet the right needs to deal with. I'd like to think the surging popularity of Ron Paul and the last two presidential elections brought that home, but I doubt it-especially after the sad excuses Ive heard up to this point.
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Ron Paul's popularity is "surging"?
 
Leeburte said:
free·dom noun \ˈfrē-dəm\

a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action

Many people need to relearn what that word means.
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Do you have a definition for SOCIETY?
 
Unrepresented said:
That's central planning with an obstructionist party limiting things.
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Yea, the Democrats.

Harry Ried stacking up over 300 GOP bills on his desk instead of allowing the Senate to vote on them.

Obama and hia unilateral Presidential decrees. The only policies that have been implemented Federally since 2008 are Democrat policies.

And it shows.
 
Taylor said:
I wouldn't say so. The election results were lopsided, but not because scores of people rejected liberalism and voted the other way. Much of it was due to the fact that many who tend to support liberalism simply stayed home. Thus, voters rejected Obama, not liberalism as a whole. That being said, the brand is certainly damaged.
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I largely agree with this. Obama was right, his policies were on the ballot and they were rejected. I'm not exactly sure that his policies are liberal. His signature legislation, Obamacare is such a confused mess I don't think it could be called liberal. It's more of a train wreck, which come to think of it could make it liberal. The liberal position would have been single payer, which is a different kind of train wreck. His foreign policy isn't liberal. It's just incompetent. His economic policy and treatment of the military is fairly liberal. Cuts to defense spending is certainly liberal. The expansion of food stamps and unemployment are certainly liberal. The creation of dependence on government and bloated bureaucracies is certainly liberal.l Abortion liberal, although he's waffled on that. The minimum wage distraction is liberal.

Overall, Obama has been a disappointment to many liberals, and certainly been a disappointment to everyone else. Liberals still lurk in the electorate in large numbers believing that the reason their policies always fail is that the right liberals haven't had a chance to make them work.
 
jpn said:
That's funny. I wonder if you noticed that the GOP has refused to consider any of the policies that Obama and the Dems have proposed to accelerate the economic expansion. The GOP even refused to extend unemployment benefits, which has one of the greatest "bangs for the buck" when it comes to federal spending to stimulate the economy.

Here's hint: The GOP has purposely sabotaged the economy as a way of undermining support for Obama, and the American public is too stupid to understand that. We have some $3 trillion in infrastructure projects we could be funding at almost no interest, which would have a dramatic stimulus effect. But of course the GOP wouldn't even consider Obama's jobs program that would have done exactly that.
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I wouldn't lay the fault at the hands of the people. What did the Democrats and Obama do right after the election of 2008 in which the people elected them to do something about the economy. Sure they immediately passed the Stimulus and then forgot about the economy concentrating on healthcare. Since the that has been the perception, Obama concentrating on other things and not the economy.

To most people the minimum wage has little to do with getting the economy moving. The Keystone pipeline was looked at a jobs creator and it is still pending. The Republican House has sent over 30 jobs bill to the senate in which Reid tabled. There is fault here on both sides. But Democrats will always blame Republicans and Republicans Democrats, that's politics.

What both sides have not done over the last four years is to sit down with each other with some give and take. Having the Republican House look closely at Democratic job Bills with the Democrats and come to a meeting of the minds what can and will be accepted and what will not and pass the portions that will. The same is true in reverse, the Democratic senate which has the power to add, delete, change amend any passed house bill has taken the route of just tabling them, no action, no debate no sitting down and coming to the meeting of the minds with some give and take.

The bottom line has been for the Democrats if it is Republican it is bad.
The bottom line has been for the Republicans, if it is Democratic it is bad.
 
Fenton said:
Yea, the Democrats.

Harry Ried stacking up over 300 GOP bills on his desk instead of allowing the Senate to vote on them.

Obama and hia unilateral Presidential decrees. The only policies that have been implemented Federally since 2008 are Democrat policies.

And it shows.
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Executive orders are fairly limited compared to laws, even if the laws passed have been democratic leaning, there've been very few of them to actually shape the economy since 2010.

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Liberalism rejected? No ... liberalism in the classic sense is nearly (or perhaps fully now?) extinct. Progressive policies were rejected in this mid-term as the road those policies lead the American people are not satisfactory.
 
US Conservative said:
It was a bad night for dems and dem policies. Exit polls show Americans were not happy with the left.
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Was liberalism rejected in the mid term elections?
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No, liberalism itself was not rejected:

1. The results follow the usual back-and-forth pattern we have seen for decades
2. Liberalism was a big winner on the referendum front (eg marijuana legislation/medicinal, minimum wage, etc.)
 
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