Liberals vs. Conservatives

Things to remember about liberals and conservatives:

• Liberals support the troops more than Conservatives. Liberals have always been against using the troops as a first resort where as conservatives seem to have no problem with sending our service men and women to war even if the war is not worth it in the end. The Bush administration ignored many sources that said an Iraq invasion was not worth it and there were no WMDs, but because Bush had a personal vendetta on Saddam prior to his presidency Bush followed through with the unnecessary war, resulting in over 4100 troops dead. Liberals want our military back home to defend the home front from potential attacks in the future, but conservatives don’t care about that and would rather leave the men and women in uniform to die in unconstitutional wars. 
• Liberals are more Patriotic than Conservatives. The right wing has successfully imbedded the false idea that Liberals are unpatriotic for not supporting the war, the troops, the President, and for saying good things about France. The fact is Liberals are outraged with the Bush administration for using the troops to execute a personal agenda, destroying our very precious rights from our Constitution, and for giving America a reputation that may never allow the respect we deserve from the international community. Bush is ok with torture to others, even if they are innocent, violating international law. All the conservatives defended Bush and his PATRIOT Act which stripped privacy from all Americans, eliminating a precious liberty as listed in the 4^th amendment from our Bill of Rights. This reminds me of a quote from an American founder Benjamin Franklin: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
• Liberals are way more open minded than Conservatives. On the issue of climate change, we are presented with a two basic sides. There is a major problem with man made global warming vs. Global warming is the biggest hoax in history. (we are excluding side arguments here such as “there is global warming, but it isn’t man made”) I think that this was never really a political argument until the American people started making it an issue to address. Conservatives needed to protect their big oil buddies so they insisted on making this a political issue and not a scientific one. Liberals looked at the facts and predictions from environmental scientists and the conservatives had no one to attack until one liberal made a movie about it. Then it suddenly became a political issue. Liberals tend to base their ideas on facts, and are always open to changing their mind if the facts provide it. Many liberals including myself, Eric Alterman, and Michael Moore were all upset by Clintons lies and yet no conservative leaders and/or pundits have gone after the many Bush lies.
• Liberals support the U.S. Constitution, unlike the Conservatives. The number one reason liberals are outraged about the Bush Administration in general is the complete disregard that Bush and his minions have for the Constitution. From the PATRIOT Act to the war in Iraq, the Bush executive fraternity has stripped the power of the Constitution from the people. The right wing says it is a natural necessity to give up some of our liberties when raging the war on terror. But the left wing insists that the Constitution is the sacred document that kept this country free and safe since it was signed. Anyone who tries to take away the liberties that our founding fathers promised to us in the Constitution is a fascist.