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Re: Quinn's Laws

2016-05-01T19:36:05-06:00

I no longer see the political world as a spectrum or continuum. To me it's more like the Olympic rings: chunks of overlap between two or more ideologies.

Liberals and libertarians would allow for drug use. Liberals would regulate and tax it heavily, while libertarians would (generally) not.

Liberals and conservatives want limited government, believing markets solve problems if people are left to their own self interest. Except that conservatives want more gov't regulation in areas where the see markets for what they consider morally repugnant.

This is a very light discussion, I'm still working on my dissertation

Statistics: Posted by HoosierCougar — Sun May 01, 2016 7:36 pm

Re: Quinn's Laws

2016-05-01T11:34:51-06:00

I'm really glad I'm not a liberal!
I don't think we have any true libs on CC. Libertarian maybe but not liberal

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Tell me, how libertarian and liberal are different?

Libertarians and liberals are basically on opposite ends of the spectrum. Libertarians believe in the smallest amount of government possible, while modern liberals believe that the government should control and be in charge of as much as possible (see: Marxism, Socialism, Communism. see also: socioeconomic philosophies cooked up by men without any true life experience or high IQs that have failed every time they've been tried).

There are, however, a few places where liberals and libertarians intersect, like legalization of Marijuana.

Statistics: Posted by Schmoe — Sun May 01, 2016 11:34 am

Re: Quinn's Laws

2016-04-27T22:54:06-06:00

Modern day liberals as found in the current Democrat party are really Marxist who do not believe in capitalism and would love the government to establish a socialist Utopia.

Statistics: Posted by SpiffCoug — Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:54 pm

Re: Quinn's Laws

2016-04-27T22:52:09-06:00

I'm really glad I'm not a liberal!
I don't think we have any true libs on CC. Libertarian maybe but not liberal

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Tell me, how libertarian and liberal are different?

Statistics: Posted by BroncoBot — Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:52 pm

Re: Quinn's Laws

2016-04-27T10:24:16-06:00

Just thought I would post an update I particularly like #24.

Quinn’s Laws of Progressive Liberalism (Leftism)
1.Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.
2.If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse the conservatives of.
3.The amount of wealth in any given area is inversely proportional to the amount of Democrats running it.
4.Liberalism only succeeds when the public is scared into believing that it will not survive without it.
5.When liberalism conflicts with reality, reality must give way.
6.Facts are the enemy of liberalism.
7.It’s different when you are a Democrat. Things that Conservatives are condemned for are merely resume enhancements for liberal Democrats.
8.A Liberal is any person for whom two thousand years of human experience and history means nothing now that they are here.
9.To Liberals, intentions are more significant than the outcomes they achieve.
10.Liberals never think what they are doing is wrong, they only think they haven’t done enough of it yet.
11.Profiling is what groups call bigotry when they have a problem they don’t want to talk about.
12.Liberals do not engage in debate, they try to silence you. If they engaged in debate, they’d lose.
13.Liberals (Democrats) are political opportunists. They can never let a good crisis go to waste.
14.Liberalism is based on unproved and/or disproved theory.
15.To a Liberal every culture is unquestionable and of equal value except the West’s.
16.Liberals view the world the way they think it should be, not the way it is.
17.Being a liberal is the art of standing on one’s own head and telling the rest of the world that they are upside down.
18.A Liberal is someone who has replaced reality with their ideology.
19.To a Liberal the definition of a great thinker is somebody who can journey as far as possible from reality and make it look like they used some kind of sound logic to get there.
20.Liberals suffer from intellectual inbreeding and become extremist because of having to think only in the proverbial liberal box and not being able to stray from liberal dogma.
21.Hate speech is anything a Liberal doesn’t agree with.
22.Liberals love democracy unless it doesn’t go their way.
23.Liberals love the law unless they don’t agree with it. Then they just don’t obey it.
24.Every time a Liberal tries to fix something, someone somewhere loses their job.
25.Liberals are great at giving away other people’s money.
26.Liberals like the courts unless the decision doesn’t go their way.
27.Liberals have never seen a tax or tax hike that they didn’t like.
28.Liberal only see capitulation or an apology as “blood in the water”.

Statistics: Posted by imuakahuku — Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:24 am

Re: Quinn's Laws

2012-08-19T17:06:10-06:00

I'm really glad I'm not a liberal!
I don't think we have any true libs on CC. Libertarian maybe but not liberal

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Probably right. Except I support more vigorous gun control, choice for the woman who has been raped, whose life is in danger or is the victim of incest, the Affordable Health Care Act, cutting spending AND raising revenue to control debt, greater regulation of big financial institutions to name a few and in most quarters of what I read that makes me a flaming liberal. So be it. I still love you guys

My political beliefs are very simple. I define myself as -
1. Independent Fiscal Conservative - control spending and make the govt. get out of debt.
2. Strong Constitutionalist - it is not a living, changeable document based on whim or political expediency.
3. Libertarian leanings - govt. is far too invasive.
4. I want to re-institute the "Law of the West" - shoot before being shot. LOL!

Statistics: Posted by Ddawg — Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:06 pm

Re: Quinn's Laws

2012-08-19T10:15:04-06:00

I'm really glad I'm not a liberal!
I don't think we have any true libs on CC. Libertarian maybe but not liberal

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Probably right. Except I support more vigorous gun control, choice for the woman who has been raped, whose life is in danger or is the victim of incest, the Affordable Health Care Act, cutting spending AND raising revenue to control debt, greater regulation of big financial institutions to name a few and in most quarters of what I read that makes me a flaming liberal. So be it. I still love you guys

Statistics: Posted by BoiseBYU — Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:15 am

Re: Quinn's Laws

2012-08-19T08:48:17-06:00

Proposed additions:

a. When you call a liberal a liberal, he accuses you of name calling.

b. When liberals are happy—that's bad. When they are throwing a fit—that's good.

c. When liberals take an oath to uphold the constitution, they are lying.

d. When liberals get caught with their hand in the cookie jar, they claim the moral high ground and appoint themselves the head of a new commission overseeing all cookie jars.

LOL. Can you say Barnie Frank! I'll have to send your list to Quinn

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Statistics: Posted by imuakahuku — Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:48 am

Re: Quinn's Laws

2012-08-19T08:45:47-06:00

I'm really glad I'm not a liberal!

I don't think we have any true libs on CC. Libertarian maybe but not liberal

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Statistics: Posted by imuakahuku — Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:45 am

Re: Quinn's Laws

2012-08-19T00:21:59-06:00

Proposed additions:

a. When you call a liberal a liberal, he accuses you of name calling.

b. When liberals are happy—that's bad. When they are throwing a fit—that's good.

c. When liberals take an oath to uphold the constitution, they are lying.

d. When liberals get caught with their hand in the cookie jar, they claim the moral high ground and appoint themselves the head of a new commission overseeing all cookie jars.

Statistics: Posted by tww — Sun Aug 19, 2012 12:21 am