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Liberals? Progressives? Just Call Them Control Freaks

BORN FREE Wrote: Aug 02, 2010 12:05 AM
Control freaks suffer from poor self esteem and poor sense of self worth which together is essentially a lack of self respect. That pathology explains why liberals have no respect for the sanctity of life. Consequently they all live with an identity crisis; some liberals believe they were born gay and the ones that weren't born gay figure being gay is OK. Now If the liberal gay identity' scenario isn't bad enough in and of itself the liberal/progressive movement believes it is entitled to special rights. Can someone say self centered? Will those special rights be then extended to the "gay embryo" (Not that there could ever be a gay embryo!) such as a right to protect it? That creates a problem, doesn't it. Why are unborn eagles in...

Liberals have been looking for a new name, most likely driven by the uncharacteristically sensible realization that most Americans reject their big-government philosophy.

When the Gallup poll asked Americans last year whether they considered themselves conservative, moderate or liberal, only 21 percent said they were liberal, while 40 percent said they were conservative.

Nor was this plurality of the right confined to red states. Self-professed conservatives outnumbered self-professed liberals in every state of the Union -- from Massachusetts to Hawaii.

In the face of this, some advocates of big government now call themselves progressives -- without specifying exactly where it is...