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You Know
You're a Liberal ....If
Based on
the Don Feder column - 12/09/99
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- If you
think Rob Reiner had to stretch to play
the liberal in "All in the
Family"
- If you
think the answer to ANY crime,
infraction, or injustice is counseling.
- If
you've spent no less than 30 years in the
walls of academia and don't see how today
could be too much different from the
'60s.
- If you
think the criminal has more rights than
the police who arrest this criminal,
unless the crime is sexual harassment, or
racism.
- If you
use the term 'open-minded' and don't care
that it can't be defined in absolute
terms.
- If you
think only white people can be racist.
- If
Clarence Thomas made you sick, Bob
Packwood made you protest, but Bill
Clinton is a victim of partisan politics.
- If you
think that teenager's sexual behavior is
uncontrollable, but hardened violent
criminals should be released on parole
after serving a cut sentence in a
"correctional institution".
- If you
think Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson
Lee are articulate geniuses but Justice
Clarence Thomas, Dr. Alan Keyes and Dr.
Walter Williams are dolts.
- If you
think Rush Limbaugh and Michael Reagan
are mean spirited racists and promote
hate crime but Maxine Waters, John
Conyers and Louis Farakahn aren't and
don't.
- If you
think that the Constitution is a living
document and should be changed but the
writings of Karl Marx are "written
in stone".
- If you
think burning the United States flag
should be Constitutionally protected but
burning a cross should be outlawed.
- If you
think that tax cuts hurt poor people and
are uncompassionate but taking 30% from
their paychecks is compassionate.
- If your
idea of hell is having to mind your own
business and not meddle in other people's
lives.
- If you
believe that posting the "Ten
Commandments" in schools will hurt
the children, but putting "Heather
Has Two Mommies" or "Ask
Alice" (on the internet) won't.
- If you
think that the American Dream could have
only been accomplished in the '60s.
- if you
think that conservatives have no sense of
humor then shudder at the idea of a
Clinton joke.
- If you
actually do believe that Clinton doesn't
know the definition of the words
"alone", "is", or
"correct".
- If you
believe that Columbus is a mean-spirit
bringer of genocide, and never should
have explored to the new world, which
meant that no one would have religious or
taxation freedom whatsoever.
- If you
think that the only way the tragedy in
Littleton, CO could have been avoided was
to restrict the access of the guns, two
of which were bought on the black market.
- If you
actually think the multicultural movement
of the '90s works better than organized
religion.
- If you
don't want the Christian Right imposing
their morality on you, but you want to
impose big government on everyone else
because they won't do the right thing.
- You're
a liberal if you can't see the irony in
your own beliefs.
- If you
believe Peter Jennings is a very educated
and intelligent man.
- If you
can actually believe everyone around Bill
Clinton is lying, but Bill Clinton
himself is telling the truth.
- If you
point to God's forgiveness of King David
in reference to Bill Clinton but
"forget" to read the rest of
the scripture about the ruin that he
inflicted on his family, his kingdom and
himself.
- If you
think that the only acceptable hate crime
is Christian bashing.
- If you
want to make the rich "pay their
fair share" but leave Ted (more
people have been killed in my car than in
an American nuclear power plant) Kennedy
and Dick Gebhardt out of the definition
of the rich.
- If your
idea of compassion is giving a homeless
person a shopping cart but expecting them
to accept the responsibilities of life is
mean spirited, racist, bigoted, etc. ad
nauseum.
- If you
think Princess Diana was compassionate
for hugging poor children and children
with AIDS (while "forgetting"
about her getting in her limo and driving
away) but Mother Teresa makes you
uncomfortable.
- If you
think that "dumbing down"
America's school kids is compassionate
but holding them to high educational
standards is "mean spirited",
racist, bigoted, etc. ad nauseum.
- If you
think that Teddy Kennedy, Jesse Jackson
and the KKK don't have anything in common
(at least the KKK is honest about their
goals).
- If you
think that people need to be punished for
good choices and rewarded for bad ones.
- You're
a liberal if you think what Hitler did to
the Jews is horrible but the
"Christian Right" is dangerous
and needs to be done away with.
- If you
don't see the parallel between yourself,
Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin and Chairman
Mao.
- If you
believe that the "700 Club" are
a group of fakes or actors but the people
on "The Jerry Springer" show
are real people.
- If you
actually refer to the Reagan and Bush
Presidencies as one Presidency.
- If you
think that affirmative action is the only
way to solve racial problems in America.
- If you
think the best way to care about a
disease is to wear a ribbon.
- If you
think that pouring blood on a $1,500 fur
coat is a sure-fire way to get your
message across, but if anyone protests
outside an abortion clinic, they're
extremists!
- If Sean
Hannity makes no sense and Alan Colmes
makes perfect sense.
- If you
voted for Mondale in 1984 thinking that
raising your taxes was a good idea.
- If you
refer to listening to Jesse Jackson or
Sam Donaldson as "equal time".
- If you
make snide remarks to guys for looking at
women but champion Clinton's right to do
whatever he wants with his interns.
- If you
think the impeachment vote was 'just
about sex'.
- If you
think all the attacks against Republicans
are justified, but got outraged about the
Willie Horton incident.
- If you
actually think Clinton 'only inhaled'.
- If the
last 'good old president' you remember
was Carter.
- If you
condemn Dan Quayle for misspelling potato
and then ignore the witticisms of Al Gore
(who are these people?)
- If you
think Alec Baldwin was justified in his
protest on the Jay Leno show.
- If you
actually think there IS a way that the
Republicans can poison the water supply
to certain people, and destroy the ozone
layer.
- If you
believe any of the conspiracies such as
that the AIDS virus was started by the
government or that certain products cause
sterility in black males, but think
"The X-files" is too far
fetched.
- If you
think that Watergate and Iran-Contra was
a travesty of justice, but anything
against Clinton is partisan!
- If you
believe VH-1 when they tell you that
warning labels were put on by
"Conservatives led by Tipper
Gore".
- If you
believe Clinton's 'change of heart' after
the sudden switch in the 1994 election.
- If you
use the words "right wing
extremist" at least four times in
any given day.
- If you
think that bombing on Iraq couldn't have
possibly had anything to do with the
impeachment vote... then why did they
stop as soon as the vote was done?
- If you
think that the four cops who beat Rodney
King should have been thrown in jail
forever, but the four thugs who beat
Reginald Denny should have fair justice.
- You
complain that your community has too many
white people and the Catholic church you
go to doesn't have enough ethnicity, but
you're the first one with a for sale sign
in your yard when blacks start moving in.
- You
called Vietnam Veterans "baby
killers" but think that allowing a
woman to suck her baby into a sink is a
constitutionally protected right.
- You
think that Joe Camel and big tobacco are
out to kill your babies, but allowing a
babies brain to be sucked out of its
skull when it's 1/3 of the way out of the
birth canal is paramount to a free
society.
- You
scream if a CEO sleeps with an employee
but think that Clinton receiving oral sex
from an Intern is just fine.
- You
believe that Clinton was forced to lie
under oath by the "Vast Right Wing
Conspiracy"
- You
think that Ken Starr is the devil's
helper for calling Monica's mother to
testify but believe that Ollie North's
wife and minister being called before the
grand Jury was fair.
- You
believe Clinton's numbers about the
number of jobs created and don't credit
it to the businesses given opportunities
in the 1980s.
- You
know no recorded economic history (e.g.
the massive stagflation and recession)
before the Reagan Era.
- You
think sexual harassment is rampant, date
rape pervasive, domestic violence common
and Paula Jones is lying.
- You get
mad when rape victims' sexual history is
plastered all over the news media, but
think Paula Jones' sexual history
"must be made public."
- You
pale at the execution of child killers,
but defend the killing of unborn children
as an expression of choice.
- You
fully support women who have
"exercised their right to
choose" when they abort in the 3rd
trimester, but think Amy Grossberg should
get the death penalty before the trial
even goes to court.
- You
think trees have feelings, animals can
conceptualize and the fetus is a blob of
protoplasm.
- You
wear a red ribbon to show your support
for a cure for AIDS but oppose all animal
experimentation needed to find that cure.
- If you
hear a news report of a man beat nearly
to death because he is a minority or gay
and you rally about punishing the bigot
who committed the terrible act BUT, if
you hear a news report of a man beat
nearly to death for his money, and you
start talking about the poor
disadvantaged person who is forced to
commit such acts to survive.
- You are
convinced that Frank Capra films and
Norman Rockwell paintings are lies and
distortions but "Platoon,"
"Dances with Wolves" and
"Thelma and Louise" are
realistic.
- You
thought Walt Disney was saccharine sweet
and terminally cutesy-pie - until it made
Pocahontas.
- You
think a moment of silent prayer at the
beginning of the school day constitutes
government indoctrination and an
intrusion on parental authority, while
sex education, condom distribution and
multiculturalism are values-neutral.
- You
agonize over threats to the natural
environment (acid rain, toxic waste) but
are oblivious to threats to the social
environment (pornography, promiscuity,
and family dissolution).
- You are
appalled at all the money being spent
investigating the alleged illegal
activities of Bill Clinton, but insists
that investigating 75 charges (74 which
were dismissed as unfounded) charges
against Newt Ginrich was "the only
just thing to do."
- You
want to outlaw cigarrettes and legalize
marijuana.
- You
want to legalize cocaine and outlaw
handguns. You think cops are pigs and
criminals are products of their
environment.
- You
believe the National Rifle Association
helps criminals while the American Civil
Liberties Union protects the innocent.
- You
think Rush Limbaugh is responsible for
the Oklahoma City bombing but are
outraged by suggestions that Ted
Kaczynski (the suspected Unabomber) and
Al Gore have anything in common.
- You
just know that everything Rush Limbaugh
says is a lie but you have never listened
to him.
- Jesse
Jackson makes sense to you. Barbara
Streisand makes even more sense.
- You
think Herblock cartoons are funny and
Janet Reno is totally hot.
- You
believe corporate profits are obscene but
government spending is too low and the
American people are under taxed.
- You see
cartoons condemning religions and making
fun of Christianity as funny and an
expression of free speech, but think the
cartoon B.C. should be banned.
- You
think deficits are caused by tax
loopholes.
- You
think AIDS is spread by insufficient
funding.
- You
consider the Catholic bishops noble and
idealistic when they oppose capital
punishment and welfare cuts but dangerous
fanatics trying to legislate their
theology when they defend the right to
life.
- You are
convinced that proponents of welfare
reform hate the poor and opponents of
affirmative action hate minorities, but
AIDS activists who bash the Pope and
People for the American Way types who go
psycho over Protestant
"fundamentalists" are guardians
of democracy.
- You
attribute every minority problem to
entrenched, institutional racism and the
legacies of slavery and segregation.
- You
think the black middle class is a myth
created by Newt Gingrich.
- You
view race riots as justifiable
expressions of rage over injustice and
fail to see the similarities between a
black mob burning a Korean store and a
white mob in the Jim Crow era lynching a
black man.
- You
don't understand all of the whining about
affirmative action and are more than
willing to sacrifice someone else's
employment or education opportunity to
assuage your guilt.
- You
marched against American involvement in
Vietnam, thought the Gulf war was
unnecessary but believe 25,000 U.S.
troops in Bosnia are vital to our
national interests.
- You see
no correlation between welfare and the
rise of illegitimacy, judicial leniency
and surging crime rates, or addiction and
an entertainment industry that glorifies
drug abuse. But you believe Richard Nixon
is responsible for everything horrible
that's happened in the past
quarter-century.
- You
think those child-abusing, religious
fanatics at Waco had it coming but the
illegal immigrants roughed up by
California deputies - after leading them
on a high-speed chase - are the victims
of the decade.
- You
continually say that conservatives have
no sense of humor, but after reading this
page, think that I am cold and
mean-spirited.
- Lastly,
you're a liberal if - you don't get the
point of my web page!
Based on
the Don Feder column

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