Sam Smith, 2008 - You are probably not a liberal anymore if:
You think the elimination or reduction of social services is a "reform." Accept the idea that Social Security and Medicare must live within the limits of an arbitrary "trust fund," but that the Pentagon need be under no such restrictions. Liked the Clintons' health plan and wonder whether single player health care wouldn't be too socialistic. Consider a 5% wage increase in an industry to be inflationary but a 5% return on your stocks in that industry to be inadequate. Think it's all right to bomb the smithereens out of Balkan, Asian, or Middle Eastern countries for humanitarian reasons. Regard the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, PBS, and NPR as liberal media. Know what NARAL stands for but not SEIU. Agreed with Toni Morrison that Clinton was our first black president. Have doubts about gays in the US military but approve of having the US military in over 130 countries. Spend more time thinking about Hillary's chances and executive glass ceilings than you do about sweatshops, the minimum wage, or workplace safety. Are afraid your children can't handle drugs and booze as well as you did when you were their age. Believe that because you were robbed once, you can support mandatory sentencing and the drug war with a clear conscience. Have an piercing alarm system on your Lexus but think gun owners are paranoid. Haven't noticed that democracy and the Constitution aren't doing so well these days. The front seat of your SUV is higher than the front seat of your plumbers' pickup truck.
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I think that those are all representative of liberal beliefs. A liberal these days is just a conservative who eats quiche, goes to the opera once in a while and has a couple gay friends. When people tell me that I am a liberal, I take it as a insult.
Anonymous nails it.
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