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Before you take this post the wrong way, I find the American right wing just as repugnant as the left. In fact more so.

But living here in Seattle, a seemingly 'liberal' person, you start to see some rather distrubing aspects of the liberal party line. Most of this is 'well, duh' stuff, but I feel the need to spell it out.

1) The first is rather obvious: The belief that government can solve all our problems. It can't. How can this not be obvious to everyone at this point?

2) "If people would adopt my liberal life style, the world would be a better place".

Well, sure. This is true to a certain extent. Folks here in Seattle have created an amazing city, with good transportation (massive light rail project almost done), with excellent social services. So yeah, if every community did this, I do think America would be a better place.

There just one problem: This will only work if everyone in the community happens to be REALLY wealthy, educated people. Liberals fail to grasp that the communities they envision require a huge local tax bases full of people with masters degrees. Does this describe the average American city? Nope.

This same issue applies to food. We and our friends enjoy making meals for each other and coming up with new delicous vegetarian, organic, shade tree, fair trade food. So why shouldn't everyone do this? Because its absurdly expensive. We can go in and drop $150 on grocerys like nothing. Works for us, but the vast majority of folks have neither the time to prepare this kind of food, or the money to pay for the rather expensive ingredients. Its really only one step from saying, "Let them eat cake". And its getting worse as prices rise.

3) Not analyising issues deeply enough, and treating politics like a fashion statement. Why are you wearing organic cotton pants that cost $90? Because its all the rage in Portland.

The best, and most awful example? Biofuel. While there are relatively few biofuel vehicles on the road, even here in Seattle, its still a lot when you consider the how limited the supply is globally.

And the terrible fall out? People are literally going to start starving to death as countrys starting planting more and more crops for fuel as opposed to food. Its already happening. Food prices have spike dramatically, and people across the globe living on less than $1 a day are in danger of starvation. Its awful.


I am sure that any comments about this post will quickly degrade into juvenille name calling, but here you have it. Liberals getting ripped by a liberal.