Are you a liberal or conservative or neither?

Are you a Liberal or Conservative, or do you think these terms are means to make political gains?

Are you a Liberal or Conservative is a question that is often asked? After all if you declare yourself a champion of one cause, you can show that you are an activist of one cause and you have a readymade support group, and a group to hate. Do you really think that inciting hate does not pay? Just follow Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter. The rhetoric will get you charged up if you do not think deep enough.
But a majority of self styled Tea Party conservatives that hate any Government role either are ignorant that Medicare is a Government program or would not part with it. Will Tea Party conservatives hate Government less for giving them access to health insurance when all almost all aging citizens have pre existing conditions and private insurers don’t want them? Well, publically Tea party won’t tone down the rhetoric, although they appreciate having it and knowing they would not have it had it not been for the Government. The same hold for instituting Social Security Programs. Well then why would anyone want FDR tagged with the “Liberal”, intended to be a derogatory word? Try Limbaugh, Coulter, Crawley and Hannity to not use this word in a derogatory way. That will put them out of their multimillion dollar business. So those supporting and creating public oversight in creating safety net for senior citizens are liberal or conservative? This issue of opposing the creators of the safety net while needing and wanting it for them will never be in the hate mongering talking points.
Whereas best of productivity is driven by competition, is competitiveness liberal or conservative driven? Should the ability to innovate rest in the hands of few or the opportunity should be open to all. Is opportunity liberal or conservative?
Is Education liberal or conservative? Watching the political scene, it is being portrayed as liberal. Come on! Is Education derogatory? If the Hate Mongering machine has to get higher media rating, they must denounce Education. How else can you drive them to show up in your rally and support those working against their interest? Your biggest enemy is Education because it teaches logic. Go turn them against Teachers, and you will have an army of followers who would think that education makes them “Elite” which is synonymous with liberal, which you all have worked hard to project as derogatory or one that makes you lose elections.
America became the World’s top Superpower during the Second World War because of its Industrial production. Was it liberal idea or conservative? At the time of the war, it was neither, but now Industrial Production is liberal and Outsourcing is conservative if political money draw were to decide this. June 9, 2011 CNN poll sites two third Americans say elections are for sale. Is there truth to this? I think so, what do you think? With corporations sitting on record cash, would it not be possible to throw some at the hate mongering media to spread education and logic killing hate that will make billionaires out of millionaires while those who came out at the Hate rallies without education that creates skills. But is that conservative? I don’t think so. It is money making gimmick through Radio Talk and TV shows.

The world today is much more competitive than post WWII. The economy is truly global. We are up against economies such as China, Germany and Japan which have much more support and planning from their Governments. There has to be short term and long term plan to beat the competition. Besides, our strategic interest has to be protected and that is why, we cannot be a nation with no technical knowhow and capacity of Manufacturing. This is not about labels that politicians and their hires commentators pin on their opponents.
So are you liberal or conservative? My answer is I am a pragmatic. I wish we could have a culture of not being labeled.