Reply #129: They say a liberal is a conservative who's never been mugged.

[Felix Mala]

I say a conservative is a liberal who's never been raped. Once you get a view of how the system treats its victims, you can never believe right wing lies again.

If you're 25 and not a liberal, you have no heart. If you're 45 and you're not a liberal, you have no guts.



I know a story of a woman who started listening to Rush Limbaugh and got excited about participating in politics for the first time. She even talked a friend into listening who became hooked, too. One day, Wal-Mart announced they were tearing up a verdant part of town for a store. This woman joined many in town to oppose it. However, the friend she turned onto Rush ended up on the other side and cheered the inevitable corporate victory on the day the earth movers moved in. The woman was shocked. She thought the whole reason for her empowerment was to have a say in her world, not to pave the way for coporations and urban sprawl. Funny, it seems everything Rush had trained her to think was for the ultimate benefit mega corporations.