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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I called you a hippie-basher because you were calling lefties "delusional" for saying things that are true, if unpopular with conservatives.
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I am a naive liberal basher. Or, perhaps, an economic liberal basher. Both groups being worthy of bashing, for endless reasons.
Social liberals, otoh, in which group I count myself (pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, anti-drug war, anti-tough-on-crime measures, pro-immigration, etc.) should not be bashed, but celebrated. And encouraged to assert the notion one can and should be a small govt liberal (which I believe under Burke's definition would be a conservative).
Suggesting the idea of balancing the budget entirely with tax increases is unpopular with conservatives is 6th grade rhetorical sleight of hand. It's below you, me, and everyone here to use "unpopular." From any reasonable person, the correct response to such a plan would be laughter, as the proposition is all but theoretically, in an absurd world, frivolous.
