Why is California so liberal?
We aren’t. We voted in moderate Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger over a Democratic nominee who was a tool, not that long ago.We only seem “so liberal” because the Republican Ministry of Propaganda foments hatred of California, because voters with two-digit IQs can’t understand ideas, but they can and do vote against enemies…and we seem “so liberal” because what had once been the Party of Lincoln, of Teddy Roosevelt, of Eisenhower, turned into a tribe of angry rural white men once Nixon put his Southern Strategy into play.So now the GOP voter base is more like the Know Nothing Party of the 19th century than something Eisenhower would recognize.In Europe today’s GOP would be considered a radical right wing splinter party, especially with Trump in charge, while Clinton’s Democratic Party would be considered a mainstream conservative party.That said, watch the way Fox News portrays California, focusing that old devil Hollywood, Gay Pride parades in San Francisco, some of our ultra-Left congressmen…selective editing can make the whole state look like a reactionary’s worst nightmare. If there’s a speechfest on a college campus and one of the half-dozen speakers is a screamer and five of five thousand in the audience has beards and dreads, guess what you’ll see on the news that night? The screamer and the beards.You can tell the truth and still be a liar.What you’re supposed to think we’re like:What we’re really like:(portion of the million people attending Fleet Week 2017 in San Francisco, waiting for the Blue Angels to perform)
Why was the 70's so extremely liberal then the 80's so extremely conservative? Why both decade so extreme?
Why do your questions have to be Black or White? This or That? Here or There?, Both Ideologies existed during both periods. One was dominant , then we saw the fallacy, and gave the other one a chance. What is so hard to understand about that? It is what your see going on around you now, IF you are looking. BUT- If YOU want to focus on the extremes, that would make YOU an Extremist.
Is LA liberal or conservative?
Easy, Los Angeles is so liberal it is not blue, it is indigo.It's LA's mayor, city, district and county councils are all run by left wing Democrats, the US congressional districts are all Democratic strongholds. LA tends to tread lightly around its business district, Hollywood, Century City and City of Industry (All are major entertainment and studio centers).
Was Ralph Wadlo Emerson a liberal or conservative?
He wouldn't buy into those terms.
Would you be willing to go back in time and kill baby Hitler and baby Stalin, thereby saving perhaps 70 million humans from death and horrible suffering? This assumes there were no other options like kidnapping with concomitant proper parenting.
Would you be willing to go back in time and kill baby Hitler and baby Stalin, thereby saving perhaps 70 million humans from death and horrible suffering? This assumes there were no other options like kidnapping with concomitant proper parenting.While we often talk about significant historic figures and their impact on the world, it is usually true that those individuals simply rose up in certain times and certain circumstances, and if those individuals were not there then those circumstances would have made someone else fill that void.For example, if there was no Hitler, there would still be a Goebbels, as well as Himmler, Goring, and all the other high-ranking Nazis.I once saw a photo of Fidel Castro standing in front of a table, talking to his advisors. Every man in the room LOOKED like Castro- the military uniforms, the full thick beard, even the cigars. Che Guevara was just a slightly sexier “Castro Clone”.(OK, the actual “Castro Clones” were copies of Freddie Mercury, but that was a different meaning of “Castro”. :) )Here is a photo of Kaganovich, Stalin, Postyshev, and Voroshilov.Eine, Meine, Miny Moe, catch a dictator by the mustache… you get the idea.So, no, I do not think killing Hitler or Stalin would have changed anything except for the names written in the history books.If anything, it might make things worse, if their replacements were more successful than they were.