The following was circulated on Facebook. It’s obviously written by Conservative for Conservatives by mocking Liberals.
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If you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
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If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
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If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
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If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal, wonders who is going to take care of him.
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If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
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If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and Jesus silenced.
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If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
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If a conservative reads this, he’ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he’s “offended.”
Well, I forwarded it to you!
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The first and most important takeaway is that liberals, conservatives and any others should never mock (make fun of) their fellow men. If you have concluded that your claims have offended anyone, then your claims are offensive and you should not try to make someone the butt of your mocking (fun making).
1. A liberal, conservative or anyone else with any common sense wants to end the tens of thousands of gun-related deaths every year in the US. The other civilized countries in the world have already done this by enacting comprehensive gun laws. The Second Amendment has been used (abused) by gun rights advocates to prevent gun laws from being enacted and so the annual US gun deaths have remained much higher than other countries.
2. Says, “Liberals want all meat products banned.”
This would be considered absurd. It’s unfortunate that in the next hundred years the world population will grow to 9 billion or more and the amount of food we grow will not be enough. Growing the food to feed the livestock that we use for meat and dairy products uses too much of the farmland so the first food that we on the Earth will have to sacrifice is meat.
3. The CoVID19 pandemic has shown all the world that when something very bad happens, the average person is helpless to “find a way to better his situation.” One can’t find a job when the economy has no jobs.
During the Great Depression there was no welfare and people had no money, they went hungry. Today there are welfare programs and unemployment benefits. Before this pandemic almost all of the downturns in the economy were caused by the economic system itself. If the system was not so easy to upset, the people would not need to have welfare and benefits.
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In order to make decisions, Liberals, Conservatives and everyone else have to be truthfully informed about politics and social issues that affect the general public. It was, and should be the responsibility of the newsmedia to inform their viewers and readers with accurate and truthful information. Newsmedia has failed in doing this and social media is making attempts to prevent false news from spreading through their private systems. It used to be that newsmedia that used the public airwaves (broadcasting), as part of their 5-year license, had to prove that they were a positive asset to their community. With private cable systems and the internet, this seemed to be no longer needed. Therefore the FCC decided to free the airwaves from their civic responsibilities. We should make this system apply equally to all forms of media, not just airwaves. Stop lies for profit!
5. The framers of the Constitution had to form a government that included all religious sects because some of the 13 original states were founded by religious sectarians such as the Quakers. This religious neutrality continues today by keeping religious sects from dominating the United States. There are other religions which do not have a judeo-christian god, such as Buddhism or Hinduism. Thus our political system should accommodate all equally.
6. All the other civilized countries have changed their healthcare to a system that provides healthcare to their citizens and is paid for by the government. US healthcare (insurance) is the most expensive in the world, and we have poorer quality healthcare than other civilized countries.
7. It’s a very poor quality person who must have fun at the expense of other people. We should never use anyone like this as an example for our children to emulate.