Has Liberalism been on the winning side of history?

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delina_m

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With some set backs such as the Middle Ages or the last 8 years how many people today still think the Earth is flat, that women decide the sex of the baby, that living things just spring out of nowhere, that the sun revolves around the Earth, that women should not be educated, nor vote nor work (oh thats right conservative Middle Eastern countries think that). That gays should not marry (or exist), that people of a certain color or place are superior to people of another color or place.

As science and knowledge advance we leave old assuptions, superstitions and customs behind.
 
True...however which side (conservative or liberal) in today's idealogies is the one that questions scientific norms more? Hate to tell you this but liberals are the ones promoting dogmatic following into the field of science and belittle those that question the assumptions used in the modern theories.
 
Not really.

America starting moving left when we gave women the right to vote. Nothing against women voting, but you have to admit that having half the voters in the country all of a sudden soft, timid and decidedly "unmanly" and lacking in testosterone, candidates will have to start catering to them, too.

We moved even further to the left (or shall I say to the middle?) by giving women substantial rolls in the workforce and empowering them to become their own activists and interest groups independent of their husbands.

(I have to make a distinction between the left of the 50s and the left of today. The original women's movement was a true civil rights movement. Today's feminists are vile racists. I know from having read much of their literature. They are truly ugly.)
 
The liberals of today are the conservatives of tomorrow.

The world (most of it anyway) is constantly progressing, technologically and socially. Conservatives are Conservatives because they want to preserve today, instead of moving forward into the future. Many people are scared of changes in their lives.

In 50 years, the anti-gay civil rights stance will be as taboo as the anti-black civil rights stance is today.
 
I'm afraid its cyclical. It seems to be on a 1200 to 1400 year pattern but I wouldn't bet on it. In this case I'm using liberalism as a belief in and love of freedom as oppoesed to tyrranny and survival of the fittest (barbarism). The pattern and definitions are kind of loose. Give me another ten thousand years to work on it and I might be more precise.
 
just one problem......survival of the fittest (the theory of evolution) doesn't include a piece of paper protecting people...........so don't use science as a source of liberal thinking because gay males in survival of the fittest would be killed and eaten by all other animals on the planet.....it isn't science and knowledge that liberals count on ...it is a law created by man that they need for survival...so leave science and theories and survival of living things out.......
 
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