The top three reasons I am NOT a Liberal, or Progressive, as they now call themselves: 1) There are no free lunches. All wonderful government social programs, benefits, and services must someday, in some way, be paid for. And “tax the rich” won’t suffice. 2) The bureaucracies required to administer those government benefits and services inevitably become too inept, demanding, and intrusive to tolerate. 3) Liberals are remarkably intolerant of different opinions. They almost automatically define disagreement as “hate”, and accuse anyone who does have the temerity to disagree as having cognitive deficits, or "lacking critical thinking ability’.
The top three reasons I am NOT a Liberal, or Progressive, as they now call themselves: 1) There are no free lunches. All wonderful government social programs, benefits, and services must someday, in some way, be paid for. And “tax the rich” won’t suffice. 2) The bureaucracies required to administer those government benefits and services inevitably become too inept, demanding, and intrusive to tolerate. 3) Liberals are remarkably intolerant of different opinions. They almost automatically define disagreement as “hate”, and accuse anyone who does have the temerity to disagree as having cognitive deficits, or "lacking critical thinking ability’.