Yes, RG, Wardaddy was right. For while I go on and on about my shameful days as a liberal, there really WAS a difference.
Because by Thomas Jefferson’s law of countervaling forces, there really IS a place in the world for liberals.
Back when I was a liberal youth, black people really were discriminated against. There were black and white bathrooms, job discrimination and heinous racism.
There was also a very unpopular war which America was determined to lose. I had a young husband, our marriage broke up because of that war. He wanted to move to Canada. No way would I leave my country, that wasn’t going to happen.
And I cheered the Roe versus Wade decision as the final frontier conquered for the liberation of women.
I marched in Civil Rights marches, burned the flag and engaged in all manner of civil mischief but I had a passion about it.
I had no idea that some day the kooks would use Roe versus Wade as justification to yank and baby out of the womb one day before its scheduled birth.
Vietnam is nothing like Iraq.
Blacks are now at an almost equal footing with their white counterparts; it’s not perfect but we’ve come a long way.
so yeah, those liberal days aren’t quite the same thing as liberals of today.
Liberals today are not passionate people who haven’t yet learned the lessons of the slippery slope like in my day. Liberals today are unhappy mean people.
I don’t know why they’re unhappy or why they’re mean but seriously folks, isn’t Bill Maher one of the meanest people on the planet?
I know that if they’re unhappy and mean, they’re liberal.
It took a super biased press misrepresenting the war for years and a bunch of doped up protestors to do it, but they accomplished the impossible by snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
We lost a war while never losing a battle, hard to do. Hopefully we have learned from our mistakes.