Sentences with phrase «how liberals think»

Isn't that how liberals think?

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The Liberals have also put this budget through a gender - based analysis, which involves thinking about how a certain measure might affect men and women, or boys and girls, in a different ways, while accounting for other intersecting factors such as income, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

Christy Clark, B.C. Liberal leadership candidate: «At the political level, they see how dumb this decision is, so I think there's an appetite to change it.»

as for the liberal «Jews» who think that Obama is somehow Israel's BFF: may they never live to see how wrong they are.

I do think that how liberal - leaning journalists interpret events is powerfully and often unconsciously shaped by their social networks and that this influences their coverage choices.

I love how liberals accuse the GOP (falsely) of racism, then accuse any black person who thinks for themselves and decides to be a conservative (actual racism).

But that is how many liberals think; based on assumptions; put there by liberal education.

These essays make no concession to «the modern mind,» but being intelligent and literate they present liberal Jews with a bracing challenge» and Christians with a window on how classical Jewish thought is applied to contemporary problems.

But to seek a political vision more adequate than liberalism is not necessarily to repudiate liberalism entirely, and I will also discuss how the basic liberal affirmation of freedom and individuality is appropriated in Whitehead's thought.

The liberal group People for the American Way's report on how conservative foundations have deployed vast sums to support think tanks, friendly media and other institutions that promote right - wing causes is titled «Buying a Movement.»

To assent to the rules of engagement prescribed by liberal public reason is to accept a voluntary and arbitrary limit on how deeply one is willing to think, which then becomes an involuntary limit on how far one is able to see.

He thinks the CUA case a test case for true liberalism, and is waiting to see how many liberals, including Catholic liberals in academia, protest publicly.

One need only note the sheer absence of thought that has accompanied the revolution of liberal absolutism to see how successful this trick has been.

But as an English major at a small Christian liberal arts college, I can't think of a more fitting analogy to convey how I often feel when I talk to my friends about books.

Opponents think likewise, so how does a liberal society resolve the point?

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

«One of the hardest things about trying to follow Karl Barth is his apparent lack of interest in the liberal question of how theology can meet the challenges of modernity: historical criticism, the collapse of the «house of authority,» the apparent disjunction between scientific and theological thinking, etc.,» Green reflects.

I also on the flip - side don't want to play according to others rules and demand either, like by political correctness, dismissing some real facts and truth, or being told by what I call liberal fascist and others how I should think, live, eat, read, or believe.

Their antics are only the most visible (partly because they are sometimes the most silly) examples of how liberal institutions influence people who think of themselves as basically apolitical.

Since the 1960s, and in new ways under this pope, Catholics are having an internal debate about how to adapt to liberal modernity, and in that debate there are conservatives who think we've had quite enough adaptation and liberals who think that more is needed.

For all the talk from liberals about how they want to build up this country, you'd think they wouldn't spend so much time tearing it down.

When I'm out speaking to churches and other organizations, I can use your article as a prime example of all that's wrong and illiberal in liberal thinking and how unfair it is to those who don't agree with the totalizing claims of sexual liberation.

I think those are mainly to be laid at the door of capitalism and nationalism, not at the door of our liberal democratic political structure, and at the door of the church for failing to teach its members how to be discerning critics of capitalism and nationalism.

And Santorum whether you believe in his view points or not is not crazy... the left just wants to paint that picture for people that can't think for themselves... it's funny how they don't do that with liberals.

Funny how liberals are completely at a loss about how a black woman in the third millennium could possibly have the audacity to think for herself instead of letting them tell her how she should think.

Note how he sets up his argument by telling us what those evil liberals are thinking.

Firstly, I just don't think the Liberal Party had the ability to strangle the Labour Party at birth (How could they have done so?)

Nick, But when do ex-jihadis (about 29 years old), who have written of how they were close associates of the jailed Glasgow bomber, and who have never contacted the Fabians or IPPR, become experts on liberal - left think - tanks in the view of columnists for a major liberal newspaper?

His first book, «The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929 - 1964» (Oxford, 2015) explored how British Liberals engaged with economic thought in the era of John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge.

He jointly edited the Dictionary of Liberal Thought (2007) with Duncan Brack and wrote «How and How Not to Face the Future» — a response to the Lib Dem policy paper «Facing the Future».

The programme might go some of the way to satisfy party activists that Liberal Democrats are influencing Treasury thinking on how to stimulate growth.

«So I do think the Liberal Democrats need to think very carefully about how they want the relationship to prosper.»

Even Democratic allies have complained of Mr. de Blasio's high - handedness — not everyone thought it was a moral obligation to make mayoral control permanent — and Ms. Wolfe will need to figure out how to keep securing wins in an environment that can be hostile for a big city liberal mayor.

It is thought that, although continuing to warn publicly of the dangers to the economy of a hung parliament, the Conservatives may have begun privately considering how a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats could be possible.

However, I'm always slightly wary of constituency polls in Liberal Democrat held seats — the effect of incumbency and tactical voting is far higher for Lib Dem MPs, and when you ask a generic voting intention I think many people give their national preference, rather than how they would actually vote in their own constituency.

«So I do think the Liberal Democrats need to think very carefull about how they want the relationship to prosper.»

Ed Miliband, away on paternity leave, needs to think long and hard about how to woo back disaffected liberals who left the party and refused to vote for it in 2005 and 2010.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were simply morphed into Coalition, with no thought as to how exactly that would work with sometimes vastly opposing viewpoints at work.

We're fighting hard for a majority, who knows how things will turn out, I think, look, very many Labour Party members, voters, supporters, would find that very difficult and some Liberal Democrat voters would find that very difficult as well, but we'll deal with the situation as we find it.

At the same event, Paul Marshall, founder of liberal think tank CentreForum, also noted how Boris Johnson seems to have captured the imagination of this liberal group of voters, but asked «why should they be generation Boris, they should be generation Jeremy!»

Harvey is the first Liberal Democrat MP to openly admit Miliband is on course to win the election, but his thoughts match that of many pollsters, who can not see how the Tories can build on their weak position to increase their share of the vote.

At numerous hustings and meetings with members, they spoke of their liberal values, the direction they think we should go, and how to best rebuild the party over the coming months and years.

-- Thinking how to bring the left - liberal Corbyn supporters over to socialist politics.

On our Politics Blog we've set up a Cleggometer, and we're inviting readers to say how well they think the key Liberal Democrats are doing at this year's conference.

On the question of how much influence the Liberal Democrats have within government, most Conservative and Liberal Democrat supporters think they have a little influence, with Conservatives thinking that is about right or too much, and most Liberal Democrats thinking the party should wield greater influence.

A Populus poll of people who voted Liberal Democrat in 2010 in Lib Dem seats asked people in their own words why they voted Lib Dem and how they think they will end up voting at the next general election.

«I think the key number in this report is how it is a motivating issue for liberal Democrats,» Christian Ferry, who ran Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-S.C.)

The contemporary philosopher AC Grayling discusses education in the following way: «The aim of liberal education is to produce people who go on learning after their formal education has ceased who think, question, and know how to find answers when they need them.