Hi Jeff,



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



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


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



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

Cheers,
Shannon

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