[TheRealThing]

What in the hell has happened to my great country...we're going to shit.

That is what happens when you combine a novice, self proclaimed know-it-all who has no respect for traditional America or the constitution, with liberal extremism.

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Self-identified liberals are the smallest ideological bloc in the US. They make up about 20% of the American population, with roughly 6% identifying as very liberal. Over the last two decades, the proportion of both liberals and conservatives have increased, while those self-identifying as moderates have decreased. According to surveys by the New York Times and CBS News, between 18% and 27% of American adults identify as liberal, versus moderate or conservative. In recent presidential elections, exit polls show that roughly 20% of the electorate self-identified as "liberal," and, the vast majority of liberals voted in favor of the Democrats.

A Pew Research Center study found that liberals were the most educated ideological demographic and were tied with the conservative sub-group, the "Enterprisers", for the most affluent group. Of those who identified as liberal, 49% were college graduates and 41% had household incomes exceeding $75,000, compared to 27% and 28% as the national average, respectively. Liberalism has become the dominant political ideology in academia, with 44-62% identifying as liberal, depending on the exact wording of the survey. This compares with 40-46% liberal identification in surveys from 1969-1984. The social sciences and humanities were most liberal, whereas business and engineering departments were the least liberal, though even in the business departments, liberals outnumbered conservatives by two to one. This feeds the common question whether liberals, on average, are more educated than their political counterparts––conservatives. Two Zogby surveys from 2008 and 2010 indeed affirm that self-identified liberals tend to go to college more than self-identified conservatives.

Polls have found that young Americans are considerably more liberal than the general population. As of 2009, 30% of the 18-29 cohort was liberal. In 2011, this had changed to 28%, with moderates picking up the two percent. Scholar of liberalism Arthur Schlesinger Jr., writing in 1956, said that liberalism in the United States includes both a "laissez-faire" form and a "government intervention" form. He holds that liberalism in the United States is aimed toward achieving "equality of opportunity for all" but it is the means of achieving this that changes depending on the circumstances. He says that the "process of redefining liberalism in terms of the social needs of the 20th century was conducted by Theodore Roosevelt and his New Nationalism, Woodrow Wilson and his New Freedom, and Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. Out of these three reform periods there emerged the conception of a social welfare state, in which the national government had the express obligation to maintain high levels of employment in the economy, to supervise standards of life and labor, to regulate the methods of business competition, and to establish comprehensive patterns of social security."
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People are emerging from our colleges and universities as brainwashed ideologues. Practical application of the liberal agenda has historically produced only failed attempts to realize their dream. No discipline is required to dream this stuff up, and liberalism exists mostly in the minds of the John Lennonesque. And so, since every experiment to install any of the tenets of liberalism have failed miserably, spawning never ending bruhaha's in their wake, it never ceases to amaze me that liberals just won't die. Like the cancer one cannot treat successfully, it just keeps coming back again and again. And so, we find ourselves embroiled in a fight to quell the demon of liberalism yet again. The fight is long from over as the Obama administration will necessarily have to come up with a way to raise your taxes to fund this fiasco. All I can tell you is, if you want to at least dodge it for 8 years, vote for Romney.