Episode IV: Laying the ground work

My friends......


In the society that I currently live in, the word liberal is tossed around with the likes of very bad things and people (think Hilter and the Nazi party).  I hear what a bad thing it is to be liberal, and that the liberals are taking over our country.  So for this very reason, I decided to start a new project with this title.  Which meant I had to start with the actual definition of the word liberal, as well as the origin.  I used the Oxford dictionary because, well, I like it.  It's a good basis for all of English that we use, therefore, I will use it for all definitions. 

In essence, this started on a whim this morning.  I was sitting on my new couch this morning (awesome thrift store find) and I watched a small clip of something.  Due to the political climate this year, I have seen many things on many of the candidates.  I will tell you, I am standing behind Bernie and I think everyone should.. But you're also entitled to your own opinion (in this blog, it's all my opinion).  The clip was talking about how the republican party was shocked that The Donald could say something derogatory about Ted Cruz's wife.  The actual clip was on the many different republican syndicated news people saying anything and everything vile about the First Lady and her two young daughters.  It completely disgusted me to hear how they can be so incredible hypocritical in their words.  Not only that, they things they were saying was downright deplorable, especially when you see the men who are speaking. 

This got me to think about these men.  Who are these people?  The ones who have not been a politician yet seem to know everything about politics, the ones who have not served in the military, yet seem to know all the workings of our military, the ones who say they are upholders of the Constitution, yet seem to only pick and chose which ones fit their ideas and the ones that effect them.  The ones who seem to know and expect all women to act and behave a certain way, even though, none of them are women.  The overweight, middle aged, rich, white, land owning, conservative males.  So for them, to go on camera and say how fat the First Lady is, I am going to call you on that sir!  You have no right to talk with the body that you have.  It's bad enough the women all over the world are obsessed with a body they will likely not ever really have without some serious side effects, but, for your opinion to be so in line with that, it's any wonder you stay with women at all.  From what I have gathered about any of you, and the views you have of women, we might as well be property again.  What makes them able to spout their hate rhetoric to so many people?  I can spout just as much hate and be just as opinionated as they are.  I need my own radio show.  So with this in mind, let me start with the actual correct dictionary definition of liberal as set forth in the Oxford Dictionary:

liberal

Pronunciation: /ˈlib(ə)rəl   adjective

 

 1  Open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values

1.1 Favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms

1.2 (In a political context) favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform
1.3 (Liberal) Of or characteristic of Liberals or a Liberal Party.
2 [attributive] (Of education) concerned mainly with broadening a person’s general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training
3 (Especially of an interpretation of a law) broadly construed or understood; not strictly literal or exact

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin liberalis, from liber 'free (man)'. The original sense was 'suitable for a free man', hence 'suitable for a gentleman' (one not tied to a trade), surviving in liberal arts. Another early sense, 'generous' (sense 4 of the adjective), gave rise to an obsolete meaning 'free from restraint', leading to sense 1 of the adjective (late 18th century).

After looking over the definition of the word liberal, it doesn't seem to me that liberal would really be such a bad thing.  There are parts of it that I could see why there are so many who think this word is a bad one, and to be liberal means that you are some sort of a bad person.  But in my mind, to be liberal means that I am opening myself up to a better possibility.  Not that everyone who is liberal will completely discard all values, just some that no longer serve us in our current society. 

For this blog, I will discuss politics and religion for the most part as well as society hot topics and the likes of that.  There will be a lot more research that goes into this than my other blog because, if I am going to form an opinion of things, I want to have some knowledge on the subject and not be just completely random things that come across my mind.  To begin with, I am going to tackle things that the youth of this country really are clueless about: The Constitution and it's Amendments and what those mean to us, as well as how they apply to us today as liberals.  For that reason, it will be a slow process, examining each on its own and then as a whole.  We are in for a 29 week series.  So, with that in mind, welcome, to The Galactic Liberal Media.  Stay tuned next week.