Seriously: Must every institutional construct, from individual businesses to automobiles...

[Writer]

be categorized as "liberal" or "conservative"?

as Republican or Democratic?

as red or blue?

as left or right?


Can't a good idea simply be a good idea in reference to history, not to ideology?

Are we really this small-minded - this petulant - that we can't let one thing go without exercising our essentialist impulses?

Pull out your check lists, folks - let's start categorizing!


This is bunk.

~Writer~

[leftstreet]

1. My dog is a Socialist!

The Predator Class simply MUST convince us, on a daily basis, that we are a deeply divided citizenry.

There are more of Us than there are of Them.

[Writer]

2. Dogs are predators, and you said your dog is a socialist...

so does that mean that dogs are socialist revolutionaries who seek to divide us ALL???

:nuke:

[leftstreet]

3. Dogs believe in sharing

[Writer]

4. You're wrong!

My dog would snatch that ice cream cone away from that little girl, leaving her crying miserably.

Dogs have agendas. I know they do...

[leftstreet]

5. LOL

:rofl:

[Hello_Kitty]

6. Seems like you're mixing up history, ideology, and essentialism.

None of which are the same thing.

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. Hatred and mistrust only know the bounds we place on them. n/t

[damonm]

7. I've always subscribed to...

Robert A. Heinlein's take:
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists, acting from the highest motives of the greatest good for the greates number; the latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious, and lacking in altruism. But they make far more comfortable neighbors than the other sort."
Guess I'll be a surly curmudgeon someplace else...

[izquierdista]

9. Need you ask?

After 8 years of Little Lord Pissypants requiring fealty to The Big Book of Conservative Bullshit?

[damonm]

10. "Little Lord Pissypants"?!?

I am SO stealing that...