“Comments like this on Democratic Underground should remind us that any victory here is only partial:”
If you think that idiot really has a queer son that works at QB with all his queer friends, I have some swamp land for sale.
Those retards in the DUck pen lie every breath they take. Nothing they post is the truth, I doubt if even they believe it. It is fun to see them in melt-down mode though.
I don't have a lot of history with Democratic Underground, but my limited personal experience tends to confirm your view.
I've dealt with liberals in both my professional and personal life for virtually all of my life. Very often I have been the token conservative; in a fair number of cases I've been the first real conservative that a young liberal recently out of college has ever met to discuss political issues. I know there are honest liberals out there who have core commitments that are dead wrong, but which they honestly believe and with which they are consistent; there are also many liberals who haven't thought through the conclusions of their views, and who can be reached by somebody who takes the time to ask them to consider a conservative viewpoint that in many cases they may never have heard before in their lives.
And then there are others.
Too often I see the liberal equivalent to a RINO — a liberal who couldn't care less about ideology but simply mouths the leftist dogma he (or she) knows will rally the troops and get him/her elected in Democratic districts. For liberals like that, power is the goal and ideology is merely a means to an end.
Perhaps worst of all is the sort of liberal whose liberalism is, at root, a revolt against morality and external authority. I see that very often in feminist and pro-abortion circles, and a significant part of liberalism is based on a core belief of “nobody has the right to tell me what to do.”
That attitude is fundamentally corrosive to any sort of civilized society, and I can have no respect for it.
I tend to agree. It’s so implausible. Not even mainstream joints attract that kind of “gay” dedication. Bragging with the same kind of sulphurous gas that Satan brags with.