My father tells me that when I was a child, my first steps of political activism were charmingly naive—I was calling up stores in the mall at 10 years old to say that they shouldn’t sell fur because it killed animals, because I was so sure that if I could just tell them, they would change. I just assumed that people did bad things because they didn’t know that what they were doing was wrong, and if I showed them, they would stop. I don’t know when it finally came home to me that sometimes people do the wrong thing because they didn’t care about injustice, or that they hold values that make an unjust result seem to them worth striving for.
Or perhaps it is because there is a DIFFERENCE OF OPINION about just what is right and what is wrong.
To Diarrhea, homosexuality is GOOD and MORAL, while killing animals for clothing (what about for food?) is WRONG and IMMORAL. Abortion is GOOD and MORAL while preventing the murder of small children is CRUEL and OPPRESSIVE. It is her opinion that our founding fathers were in ERROR including the Second Amendment (to protect the free speech assured by the First Amendment). Uncle Joe Stalin's socialism is GOOD while George W. Bush's War On Terror (including war on the nations that sponsor terrorism) is BAD.
They aren't liberals. They aren't progressives. They are socialists. Many are afraid to use that word because they feel it is "tainted" (and that it makes it easier for us to point them out as the Reds that they are). Others see it as a badge of honor (of course they still admire the Soviet Union).
Look at this lovely message someone left to her:
My opinion is get Rove on his tricks. He seems to think that everything is fair game, then I assume his affairs, drug use, and the criminal records of his kids should be exploited. He is really the most horrific figure in American history. So there you go. Progessives spread out and speak to Karl Rove in the only language he can understand.
Anonymous | 11.08.04 - 2:35 am | #