Sheesh.



Everyone talks about "leftism" as though it suddenly cropped up in the past 5 minutes or so.



Liberals have been with us ever since the start of civilization.



Liberals are the ones who say "we don't like the way things have 'always been done.' We want a new way."



Liberals were responsible for groups of people having organized leaderships. Liberals were responsible for most of our modern laws and most of our ancient laws (the "no, it's not okay for Og to run around hitting everyone with rocks. We're going to put a stop to it" is a liberal thing. Conservatives thought that since Og had always done it there was no need to change.)



The reason you can vote today is because of liberal policies.

The reason you have a public education is because of liberal policies.

The reason we have laws against pedophilia is because of liberal policies.

The reason we have laws to ensure good city sanitation is because of liberals.

The reason we have laws to keep big logging companies from clearcutting every tree in America is because of liberals.

The reason we're an independant country is because of liberals.



...and on and on and on.



Remember, Conservatives don't like changes to the status quo. They make laws to enforce the "way things have always been."



The "psychology" angle for it is ridiculous. It doesn't take depression or clinical psychosis to see that if a man is beating his teenager to death, society should step in and keep him from killing the kid instead of standing by and handing him rocks so he could finish the kid off (by the way, that's a Biblical law, as I'm sure we all remember, and is mentioned in the Bible (and by Jesus) that if a man's child offends him and is difficult, then the man is obliged to kill his own child.)



Liberals changed that Old Testament law. And Jesus, who challenged it, was also a leftie-liberal.