Americans. Whats a bleeding heart liberal?

Being called liberal in Europe is a compliment meaning your cultured and enlightened enough to empathize with other types of people. And understand that different people raised in different ways are gonna think differently to you. Why is that bad?

Americans. Whats a bleeding heart liberal?
yawwwnnn who cares? this is a british site, not an american one.
Reply:Here it's a political thing. There's the Conservatives and the Liberals. Left and Right. The donkey and the elephant, I think. Anyway, the Conservatives have run the show around here for a while. Liberals are often known for great ambitions but nothing to back them up. It's a political struggle, and since Conservatives have had much power the Liberals look bad. It's point of view and whatnot.
Reply:a bleeding heart liberal in the USA means that liberals are soft on crime and national defense. libs belive more for criminals rights that law abiding citizens rights. libs belive that America should be able to defend itself and put itself under a new world order and give up its sovereignty.
Reply:"Bleeding heart liberal" is a phrase that underscores the absolute effeminacy characteristic of left-wingers. Having little contact with the real world (the arena of manly strife and labor) the bleeding heart tends to be a rather frail product of our hothouse universities. Fragile in mind as well as body, the bleeding heart always takes the path of least resistance, which means strict conformity to the university Brahmins' party line. Obliged by the party to feel pity, the poor dweeb promptly replies with a show of pity; and so it goes for all other such Noble Sentiments. In brief, the bleeding heart is no more than a pathetic puppet--what Anthony Burgess might have categorized as a "clockwork orange."


As a Goth and poet, I regard bleeding hearts as opponents to spontaneity, inspiration, and self-expression. Worse than subhuman, they are anti-human inasmuch as they've surrendered the demonic Self (the wayward individual soul) just to procure a warm soft place in the other-directed Commune.