Coloradomtnman
Rational and proud of it.
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I define liberalism as that resigned realization that government is a necessary evil.
The underpinning value of my version of liberalism is that the government can legitimately only rule only those things which it must because it can be proven that failure to do so threatens the commonweal.
My version of liberalism is that liberalism is NOT a suicide pact, therefore neither is it a set of defined rules or philosophies which must be adhered to come hell or high water.
My version of Liberalism believes that the world belongs to the living, not to an inappropriate devotion to anyone's myths about our floundering fathers, and certainly not to anyone's personal interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, either.
My concept of liberalism is that it is a modus operandi -- a way of thinking about the individual in regards to the society as a whole -- rather than a set of simple commandments.
I like that philosophy. Chock another good post up to editec. (I still can't give you anymore rep and I dole the stuff out like candy to children)