Reply #32: Why do you care so much what others think of you ? ...

[Trajan]

I too am poor ... I eat fast food (knowing it is bad for me) .. I too eat meat (yet I know it is morally wrong, since there are plentiful substitutes for protien in this world) .. and I rarely shop at Wal-Mart (even though I despise the company as an anchor around the necks of the community) ....

Being a liberal dont mean you are a PERFECT human being, but that you do your best to promote policies that benefit the common man/woman/family.

SURELY .. there are the liberal elites who demand a more stringent adherence to more extreme and austere philosophies ... But so the fuck what ? ... WHO the fuck CARES what someone thinks about you eating fast food ? ... Yeah: it is probably not the BEST choice, for many reasons ... but the reality is: you ARE free to make that choice ...

I see some liberals acting in this way; but I have never paid them any mind, nor do I worry about what they think of me ... But it is rare that any liberal is so blatantly elitist .... Hence why I question your broad attack on liberalism, or what I presumed was such an attack.

Maybe I am not suited to reacting to 'rants' .... especially those that are critical of 'liberals' ... because I am here to defend liberals, and liberalism, and so I am not sympathetic to such complaints .... I have never once 'given you the notion' that I am better than you because of 'blah blah blah', and so I shouldnt feel compelled to react to your anger ... But I sense you are attacking liberalism, and making broad, sweeping statements about liberalism, and it gets my gander up ...

SURELY we should eat better, and eat veggies and NON meats, and drive small cars, if at all, and do EVERYTHING that is perfectly right and good ... but we are human beings, and we have to be able to live within our own bodies with reasonable comfort. I will never be perfect, and neither will I do as others ask, request or demand simply because it is what a 'perfect liberal' would do .... But that doesnt mean the advice is bad .... I give what I hope is good advice, but I do not demand others follow it ....

I simply dont give a fuck if someone doesnt like MY version of liberalism .... But I do care about the success of the liberal movement in general .... We MUST agree on a minimal set of issues around which we will coalesce into a strong and unified party ... Whether or not YOU eat fast food or eat meat will not detract one iota from that unity ....

In the end: we will probably vote the same in the booth ...