Comments on: Seven Tenets of Liberalism http://philoofalexandria.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/seven-tenets-of-liberalism/ In advanced civilizations the period loosely called Alexandrian is usually associated with flexible morals, perfunctory religion, populist standards and cosmopolitan tastes, feminism, exotic cults, and the rapid turnover of high and low fads---in short, a falling away (which is all that decadence means) from the strictness of traditional rules, embodied in character and inforced from within. -- Jacques Barzun Fri, 03 May 2013 05:24:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: NK http://philoofalexandria.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/seven-tenets-of-liberalism/#comment-1643 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:32:29 +0000 http://philoofalexandria.wordpress.com/?p=1300#comment-1643 There is little doubt that many – though not all – conservative arguments make perfect sense on logical grounds, but I fail to see why politics should be based solely on logic. Members of a society are human beings, not pawns to be moved around by their leaders at will. Isn’t there a place for compassion?

]]> By: SMD http://philoofalexandria.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/seven-tenets-of-liberalism/#comment-1575 Fri, 29 May 2009 17:30:38 +0000 http://philoofalexandria.wordpress.com/?p=1300#comment-1575 Honestly, I see name calling and emotional appeals from both sides of the media. This is why I generally don’t want Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, or any of the other stations out there (I watch the Daily Show, but only because I find it funny, not because I see it as my way of getting a sense of politics or the world or whatever). It’s not a liberal thing, it’s a media thing in general. Both sides are guilty of slamming one another relentlessly, and both sides hold irrational, fact-less arguments. Some are based in fact, some are not, and almost all will say something without actually providing any evidence. We’re supposed to accept what they say on the air because they’re supposed to be trustworthy, but the reality is that most of them lie or have lied and been caught.

But again, as I said on the post you linked to that had these seven tenets, all of these things that are being said are essentially reducing people who identify themselves as “liberal” to caricature. You mentioned it here, even. I think there’s a weird assumption out there that liberals are all the same, that we all believe the same things, etc. This is like saying that all Conservatives are the radical right wing religious nuts we see on TV, when that’s really not the reality. A lot of conservatives are more level-headed and quite reasonable, and the same can be said of liberals. The problem I think we have is that both sides have militant, loud-mouthed people who want to be 100% right. It’s my way or no way! That’s never gotten us anywhere in this country and I think it’s time that liberals and conservatives both shut up and sit down at the same table and find logical compromises.

I don’t know if that’s possible, though. Politics in this country is so ridiculously polarized…

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