I voted no because most of my views are liberal. Below is what I would call traditional liberalism and it's defined as such:
Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally they support ideas such as
free and fair elections, civil rights, freedom of the press,
freedom of religion, free trade, and private property rights.
Liberals oppose and seek to replace absolutism in government with representative democracy and the rule of law.
I agree with all of the above. The problem is people confuse liberals with radical leftists. This is easy enough to do because radical leftists like to call themselves liberals and honestly some on the radical right like to confuse the two as well to further their own agenda.
Radical leftists like labels, especially with regard to race and economic class. They like categorizing people by race and economic status. They like painting with a very broad brush. They like antagonizing people. They absolutely do not want to have a rational and reasonable discussion about anything. They can't as reason and rationality are the enemy of their ideology. Let's take an example.
Michael Brown shooting. After reviewing the facts a liberal like myself would say that Brown brought about his demise by his own actions on the day he was killed. Radical leftists put forth the absurd argument that Brown was an innocent victim of a racist cop. A cop who went out looking for a innocent black kid to gun down for no reason. This racist cop did this in the middle of the day, in the middle of the street, in front of dozens of witnesses. This was the position of the radical left day one, and it is still their position today in spite of the evidence.
Now the question is how does one have a rational debate with such nonsense? Answer. You can't, and that's just how they want it. You just walk away shaking your head, they win. They have just silenced you. You answer back with the facts and they call you a racist. They intentionally heat up the rhetoric. People like myself say fine, you want to have this fight in the gutter, let's go to the gutter. They still win because they will only show your response, take things out of context, mislead, mis-represent and outright lie. Actually it is a strategy that works well. Ignore them they win, fight with them, they win in the sense that they have now framed how the debate will go. This keeps the perpetual issue on the table for the campaign trail. Address an issue rationally and try to solve it...never.
So yes, I'm a liberal in many ways, somewhat conservative in others, just like most people. Radical leftists have us all suffering the tyranny of the few.