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Citizen Bill sure has a way doesn't he? And it's remarkable how true that statement is. Enough questions and you can get to the root of anyone's philosophy and from there it's a question of whether or not they will listen or can ably defend their position (Something I truly believe is just shy of impossible for today's far right winger). In the country as a whole, but here in the Gem State in particular, I'm shocked at how well the right has fortified their standing not with facts or informed debate but semiliterate rabid attacks. Unfortunately it's worked to some extent, liberal is code for unwashed hippie commie bastard; If you're a "good" Christian it's assumed that you vote (R) despite torture, screwing the poor, and keeping women second class citizens. They call themselves the 'values' party but it was this party that benefitted when Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. He even said "We've just lost the South for a generation." Values apparently mean open and unabashedly (God knows we don't want to know what they're hiding from us, our hair would turn white) raping the environment and unprecendented levels of corporate and individual greed. At some level I would look at my children and ask which was more important, my shareholders or their future and their vision and memory of their father.
Our job is to challenge the programming, almost to a man (or woman), the average person will want to protect the environment, enhance and fund our public education, and support fair play in the corporate world, giving the hoi polloi the opportunity to succeed rather then be crushed by inflation or the quest for profit over employee. In short, the average person is a liberal, progressive thinker.
If fingers could be long winded I think my have succeeded, and with that I bid you farewell.
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