THE POLITICS OF CRITICISM

Rudy Giuliani mentioned something profound in his blast at president Obama.  He was upset that Obama sometimes criticizes America.  Now this really is a key difference between conservatives and liberals.

For reasons I don't fully understand, conservatives feel that you should only think good about America.  They are serious about this and there was even a move in Colorado to remove all critical things about America from the school history books.  It is a part of the makeup of conservatives and probably stems from their not liking change.  After all, if everything is good, why change?

Liberals, on the other hand, think America can be improved and that it is part of the American makeup to do so, so they tend to have a stream of problems they see in America that ought to be fixed and make a more perfect Union: women should be able to own property, women should have the right to vote, slavery is immoral, Jim Crow is immoral, minorities should be able to vote, schools should be desegregated,  the poor should have livable housing, buying a home should be color blind, hospital emergency rooms should be open to all, prescription drug insurance (Medicare D), low cost health insurance should be open to all (ACA), women should get equal pay as men in the same job, homosexuality shouldn't be a criminal offense, consenting adults should be able to marry the same sex, parents of American children should be able to stay in America.  I've probably forgotten a few.  Note that some of the liberal concepts were done by Republican Presidents, e.g. emergency rooms should be open open to all and Medicare D.

Some liberal benefits have not stuck, for instance, unions which led to the Golden Age Of Labor, but as unions decline, so have the fortunes of labor.

Not all liberal ventures have worked out.  For example: the high rise complexes for the poor bred crime.  When you think about it, if you put a lot of "failed" people together, you won't get success.  Now many of these high rise communities for the poor have been pulled down.