Norm, you need to be reminded early and often what a jackass you were (and seem to be), and I'm glad to do it.
You remind me of that phrase (heck, you probably own it) from the Narnia chronicles -"The dwarves is for the dwarves".
Look it up, it's who you've become. Stiff necked, arrogant, pure in your own mind(dwarfishly pure), and totally incapable of seeing how stupid you've become.
There he sat upon hiss high horse...Sir Lakeshark the Righteous! And with his vorpal sword of Liberalism, he set out to strike down unrighteousness in the realms of Asgard!
You go Lake Quixote! Slay those evil purists wherever you find’em! Make the world safe for moderate candidates that promote gay scout troop leaders, abortion queens and the rest. But you’ll have to ixnay of the swordaey of Great Justiceay...Cuz you know...Your friends are weapon confiscators.
But hey, your legend will live on as you oppose those evil purists. Someday they’ll even build a shrine to you. Probably on the bones of all the conservative principles you trashed to get up on that high horse of yours, but hey, can’t ‘win’ without breaking a few eggs now can we?
PS: I gotta go do something more intelligent than arguing with a liberal, so I’ll check back later to revel in your words of righteousness.