Originally Posted by
wmrs2
John56 is worried also that I do not have a backup for may claims. In America a public education is provided for all citizens, in theory at least. Much of what we talk about is considered common knowledge, such as we all know it is a fact that George Washington was our first president. I can not tell you what book this common knowledge came from, yet, commonly educated people have no problem with accepting this fact when I present it as such. However, in a history class, a strange behaving student argued that Benjamin Franklin was the first president. That caused an argument and, in that case, the teacher asked this strange behaving person to provide documentation to back up his theory. He did. The teacher disagreed but acknowledged there was some truth or facts to backup his belief that Ben was the first president. A few facts, however, do not make an acceptable theory; all we students went on believing that G. W. was the first president.
I don't need to respond to everything with documentation for you to understand the truth about most common things in American history. We Americans have a public, common education. We know common facts. Having gone through the 8th grade in school, there is nothing that has been in this debate that you should not understand from an 8th grade education level. If there are words and terms that you do not understand, Google it.
By the way, Liberals in politics is a relative new animal. It has been a long time ago but I don't remember my 8th grade teacher mentioning Liberal as an American political term. The first time I really noticed Liberals was in the election of 1968. All I know is that the Liberals did not want to be called Liberal. For some reason those who were branded as Liberals were quickly beaten. It seemed that most people thought Liberals were Communist sympathizers.
Today most of the vocal Democrats are Liberals and make no bones about it. I never have had a Liberal tell me what they believe that makes them a Liberal. Maybe you can tell me philosophically what a Liberal Democrat is. Do Liberals have a strange logic that puts them at odds with our national history? If so,explain it to me. I am listening and I promise not to require a long list of sources. If I disagree on a point, I will Google for my self. If you are a certain mindset, say so. What are the advantages of being a Liberal? Does being a Liberal make you more patriotic or does it have anything to do with that?
By the way, you ought to do yourself a favor and read a little more about theories. You will learn that a theory is many things depending on whether you are working in science, history, physics, sociology, medicine or just normal every occurrences. Coming from various theories are laws. Evolution is probably the most talked about theory in America. It is really important to theories in medicine but not so important to theories in politics. Some theories are so well accepted that they become laws, such as the law of gravity. We depend on this law very much every time we get up to go to work. We do not take time to document each time we leave home.