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I Used To Be A Left Wing Liberal

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Liberals no longer fight for women's rights. Just like the rights of Native Americans liberals have no commitment at all to support women's rights. For example, both Obama and Clinton (Bill and Hillary) are very cozy with Saudi Arabia where women are property and are stoned to death as punishment for being raped. So why are women voting for Hillary is such high numbers? Look up the term 'cognitive dissonance' and you will know why. Liberals will toss anyone under the bus if it suits their financial gains.

Liberals no longer support the free and objective independent media. Reporters covering the South Dakota protests have been arrested and threatened with decades of imprisonment for exercising their rights to a free press while the liberal administration of Obama does nothing.

Finally, we always used to be able to count on liberals to clamor for action to save the planet and environment. This year's election did not include one iota of support for cleaning up the environment and stopping global warming. After eight years of a liberal Obama administration the environment is worse than it ever has been and no laws have been implemented or even introduced by any liberal to address pollution and climate change. What a disgrace.

Today to be liberal means to embrace all the far right wing neoconservative oligarchic policies which destroy not only our nation but the entire planet. Liberals have no backbone as it turns out, to stand up against the criminal shadow oligarch government. Instead they prefer to profit therefrom. And though my politics and position have not changed one iota, I find myself in an extremely small minority of what are now thought to be far leftists. That's ok" who the hell would want to be a bloodthirsty, war-mongering, anti-free speech, anti-middle class, anti-environmental, pro-corporate, violent and criminal liberal anyway? Not me.

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Forty years practicing economist. Degree from Antioch College in 1976, studied in Universite de Montpellier, France and high school in Somerset, England for four years. Diehard progressive, true leftist, anti-warmonger, market-socialist. (more...)
 

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