"Blakely LaCroix" wrote in message
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I'm not distancing myself from it. I'M A LIBERAL, THROUGH AND THROUGH. I
believe in personal freedom, I believe that the government has the
responsibility to protect social interests from self-serving interests,
and
I believe in fiscal accountability. I believe in protecting the
environment,
I believe that public and private corporations and that the top 5% of
wealthholders in America have a social responsibilty to the bottom 95%, or
else they can try to get that rich in some other country. I believe that
we
all should donate time and energy to preserving the environment, and that
as
a nation as a whole, we have it FAR too good and that other nations have
their own soverign rights to choose their own governments and social
systems. I believe that other people are entitled to be just as misled by
their religions as our people are, and I believe that fundamentalists of
all
flavors ought to have their asses kicked by a fat lesbian named Bruno.

I am just sick of hearing people destroy the multi-party system by using
the
term derogatorily. Do some research on how that term got to be villified,
and you'll discover that you are just a puppet, being played by the
political strategists who make you think that you actually believe, or
understand, what you are saying. Its precisely the same strategy that make
the Japanese 'gooks', the Germans 'krauts', the Russians 'commies' and the
Chinese 'chinks'. Prejudice....very Christian of you.

Riverman;

Bravo!

I find it interesting that Liberals manage to have such solidarity in
their
beliefs. It must be the messages we get from the Liberal media, the
Liberal talk radio shows, and the liberal pulpit that keeps us all on
message. Without them, we might actually have to think for ourselves.

Or maybe it is just education, experience in a culture outside our own,
and an interest in solving the problems of the world, not just securing
our
own place in it.

Blakely


Hey rt;
I'm not at all certain that liberals have even the vaguest solidarity in
their beliefs....if anything, maybe in their motivations, at best. I think
the real definition of 'Liberal' according to the conservative agenda is
"non-conservative", and as such anyone that differs from the straight and
narrow theme of the Conservatives is classified as Liberal*. I'm pretty
comfortable that if we polled 100 people who claimed to be liberals, and
tested my own values and beliefs against theirs, maybe 10-15% at best would
be in agreement. And I'm pretty sure a lot less than that would know of any
fat lesbians named Bruno.

:-)

--riverman

* I have this image of a cartoon where three Conservatives are talking,
agreeing with each other about how things are and ought to be, and after
dozens of "hell, yeah!s" where they all agree, one says "Well, I don't agree
with THAT". The other two look at him in stony silence for a second, and say
"When did you become a Liberal??"