ST>Although you are incorrect, you place me in good company.  Our
ST>founding  fathers, including my personal hero - Thomas Jefferson -
ST>were all liberally  minded people.  It might even be useful to know
ST>that many of our nations  heroes, civilian & military were liberally
ST>minded people.  It was the  liberal mindedness that helped to secure
ST>the very freedom you enjoy today.  Besides, liberalism isn't a bad
ST>word anymore; Bush is no longer in office.



ST>> A small glimpse into the mind of a modern day liberal.


ST>Perhaps you didn't know that I'm retired military and a registered
ST>old  school Republican.  Although - I'm not in favor of the modern
ST>day sectarian  republican party, I believe that too many of the
ST>(entrenched) republican  leaders have aligned themselves with the
ST>religious right, crazy talk show  hosts, and have simply polluted a
ST>big part of our party.  But, I'm not alone  with that paradigm, it
ST>seems as though the great many members of the  Republican Party
ST>agrees.  To that end, I've distanced myself from my party  where I
ST>live in Texas. If I lived elsewhere, I might not have to do that.  In
ST>Texas, the democrats (in my area in Denton County / they become more
ST>liberal the farther south you drive) are more conservative than
ST>typical  democrats around the country.  They have to be if they want 
to 
ST>appeal to  their constituents.  To that end, I'm more inclined to
ST>support any other  party than I am our republican party.  As an
ST>example of the (local)  oppressive Republican party - when someone
ST>writes our local congressman  (Michael Burgess, R-26th) about
ST>anything he adamantly disagrees with, his  office calls the police on
ST>them and makes the accusation of harassment (not  one case has been
ST>prosecuted because no crime occurred).  It's traitorous  behavior.
ST>Our children weren't even allowed to watch the president's speech  on
ST>TV because the school board believed our president is propagating
ST>socialism (the word Bigot comes to mind).  Furthermore, our high
ST>school  children are subjected to visits from a Baptist church during 
lu
ST>nch as they  pass out pamphlets and tell people that Christianity is
ST>the "ONLY" religion  (my daughters Jewish friends cower in class when
ST>the church people come).



ST>I wonder: If you lived in my community would you be inclined to
ST>support the  sectarian conservative entrenched republicans, or would
ST>you be leaning  toward a less oppressive party (any party) who will
ST>represent the community  equally without calling the police on
ST>constituents who respectfully  disagree?


I am sure you fancy yourself to be like a colonial liberal thinker who 
opposed the King.  Modern day liberals are far from that but they live 
in a state of denial.  You are no different.    


Jeff

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