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First off, in the interest of full disclosure I am not a liberal and I do not play one on television, but I do know, respect and live among many liberals who I am proud to call my friends and neighbors.
A bunch of us get together socially a couple times a week (read throw a few back and tell lies to each other) and as often as the conversation is extolling the virtues and woes of a professional sports team, it is about politics, political figures and the inherent hypocrisy in each.
I saw a very funny thread this morning titled “You might be a Conservative if …..” and thought I might share some of the more memorable swipes that have been taken at liberals in our biweekly intelligence summits (pun intended) at the local VFW.
You might be a liberal, if ……….
1) You passionately believe that capitalism, corporations and business owners are the causes of unemployment and poverty in the U.S.
2) You assert that our civil rights, as outlined in the Bill of Rights, are absolute except of course the 2nd and the 10th.
3) You loudly and often decry racial stereotyping or profiling, but just as loudly proclaim that white males are inherently racist whether they realize it or not.
4) You shout and bellow about elections being stolen, but fight tooth and nail against attempts at voter registration laws.
5) You think a Christmas Tree or children signing carols in school is an egregious violation of “separation of church and state”, but see nothing wrong nothing wrong with the government funding art, which is considered trash or pornographic by millions of people.
6) You fervently believe that everyone should be free to succeed on their own merits and abilities, but see nothing wrong with the favoritism of Affirmative Action
7) You can argue with a straight face, that once a student spends 8 years in college to achieve a Masters Degree in Incan Philosophy, it is the fault of the corporate oligarchy that there are no high paying jobs for him or her.
8) You believe that the constitution, which gives you the right to burn the American flag, also allows schools to suspend students who display that flag, because it hurts the feelings of Mexican American students who are allowed to proudly and openly display the Mexican flag on Cinco De Mayo.
9) …
You get the drift.
I am not saying that these are views are absolutely correct, nor that they need to be debated, but rather presenting them as some of the points that have arisen in our ideological debates (read insult exchange) at the VFW.
Neither I nor any member of our summits claims original ownership of any of the examples presented, they are part of American folklore.
Please feel free to add your own examples to the list.
Comments, counter points, additions to the lists and smart remarks are welcome and appreciated, but try and keep it a little lighthearted as a deep philosophic discussion of political ideology is not the point of the list.
Thanks to all
