The L Word
Taking back the word
It’s June of 2006 and this being a year of politics actually the beginning of a political slug-fest in which insults and promises are hurled around like baseballs at a major league training camp I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my own political affiliation.
You see, I am what is commonly referred to as a liberal. Where I live they actually put the letter “a” in front of the word liberal in any sentence to denote the fact that not only are we different, but thankfully few in number. It is not easy being a (Insert scrunched face and negative tone here) liberal in the state that I live in. This is definitely what could be described as a conservative state.
As I mentioned, I’ve been recently thinking about the insults I will soon be hearing around the office / mall / water cooler (Insert favorite location here). Now these insults will not be directed at me personally you understand, but toward liberals in general. Again if you happen to be a liberal in the state where I reside you simply don’t make much noise about it. You don’t want to be stared at like a Zebra running the Kentucky Derby. It’s best to just keep this tid-bit of personal failure to yourself in most cases.
This year though I’m a man on a mission. My mission is to “out” all of you closet liberals and make you think about your accomplishments as well as those of your kind. I started my mission anew a few weeks ago when I heard Hillary’s speech – you know the one in which she ran away from any possible timeline for a troop draw down in Iraq. She doesn’t want to endanger the nomination in 08’ by being labeled a “cut and run” liberal right? Guess what lady, big ideas are what is needed in a new prez and if you don’t have the “balls” (forgive the pun) then you have no chance. All is looking up in conservative land if we don’t take back the word. Kerry to his credit, at the same event – admitted a mistake, co-authored a resolution, and seems to at least be embracing the fact that liberals can win a catch phrase war, and get us out of this open ended BSW our “My Pet Goat” idiot in chief has gotten us into while ignoring people, deficits, poverty, and schools and the deaths of civilians and our own brave soldiers who probably joined the service to get an education. Why is it that in many if not most cases the poor or middle class must always pay for their wealthy brethren’s mistakes in the worst possible ways?
Liberal Democrats should be proud of authoring liberal legislation and I and all of YOU - should be proud to call ourselves liberals. The “L”word, and I’m not talking about the Lesbian show on cable, which is actually pretty good, although I really think they should be including many more gratuitous Lbow sex scenes than they did this season – don’t you? (Maybe next season) is tossed around like it’s not only derogatory but an outright zinger of an insult. Now I ask all of you to go to a thesaurus or dictionary and look up liberal. Let’s examine “the L word” first then we’ll move on to a little compare and contrast not to mention long division if everyone plays nice.
If you look in your thesaurus for synonyms to liberal you will find the following words: open-minded, freethinking, moderate, and tolerant among others. These are not only traits I’m proud of, but traits that built this country and traits that we should all be proud of. I’d say giving women the right to vote was a good liberal idea. Civil rights that was a pleasant liberal concept right? Oh, I’ve got another, how about democracy? Here’s a zinger… I wonder if Jesus of Nazareth were alive today if he would be conservative or liberal? You know that guy had to be a hippie, if during the second coming he doesn’t show up in a smoke filled 68’ VW Bus, then I’ll get a purple jump suit some black Nike’s and try and board a comet… Think about it and get back to me on that.
In the interest of producing a fair and balanced op/ed to this blog, I should probably give you some information on the word conservative. As in “Man, don’t worry he’s conservative like us.” I’m going to have you get back out your thesaurus now… Sorry. Let’s look at the word “conservative” as I said I’m just trying to be fair and balanced. Now, the words that are synonymous with conservative in my thesaurus are the following: traditional, conventional, conformist, old-school, unadventurous.
Which way are we going as a country, or better yet which way should we go as a world community? Luckily that’s for all of us to decide
My point though is simple. This political season liberal is not an insult people. So, to sum up… In this year of political hardball really…. (When will anyone other than that blind reporter ask a real question?) Anyway the use of the word liberal as a political insult this season won’t work unless we really don’t get our collective heads out of our collective asses. It’s soo -contract with america…
skeet skeet tom skerritt……
It’s June of 2006 and this being a year of politics actually the beginning of a political slug-fest in which insults and promises are hurled around like baseballs at a major league training camp I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my own political affiliation.
You see, I am what is commonly referred to as a liberal. Where I live they actually put the letter “a” in front of the word liberal in any sentence to denote the fact that not only are we different, but thankfully few in number. It is not easy being a (Insert scrunched face and negative tone here) liberal in the state that I live in. This is definitely what could be described as a conservative state.
As I mentioned, I’ve been recently thinking about the insults I will soon be hearing around the office / mall / water cooler (Insert favorite location here). Now these insults will not be directed at me personally you understand, but toward liberals in general. Again if you happen to be a liberal in the state where I reside you simply don’t make much noise about it. You don’t want to be stared at like a Zebra running the Kentucky Derby. It’s best to just keep this tid-bit of personal failure to yourself in most cases.
This year though I’m a man on a mission. My mission is to “out” all of you closet liberals and make you think about your accomplishments as well as those of your kind. I started my mission anew a few weeks ago when I heard Hillary’s speech – you know the one in which she ran away from any possible timeline for a troop draw down in Iraq. She doesn’t want to endanger the nomination in 08’ by being labeled a “cut and run” liberal right? Guess what lady, big ideas are what is needed in a new prez and if you don’t have the “balls” (forgive the pun) then you have no chance. All is looking up in conservative land if we don’t take back the word. Kerry to his credit, at the same event – admitted a mistake, co-authored a resolution, and seems to at least be embracing the fact that liberals can win a catch phrase war, and get us out of this open ended BSW our “My Pet Goat” idiot in chief has gotten us into while ignoring people, deficits, poverty, and schools and the deaths of civilians and our own brave soldiers who probably joined the service to get an education. Why is it that in many if not most cases the poor or middle class must always pay for their wealthy brethren’s mistakes in the worst possible ways?
Liberal Democrats should be proud of authoring liberal legislation and I and all of YOU - should be proud to call ourselves liberals. The “L”word, and I’m not talking about the Lesbian show on cable, which is actually pretty good, although I really think they should be including many more gratuitous Lbow sex scenes than they did this season – don’t you? (Maybe next season) is tossed around like it’s not only derogatory but an outright zinger of an insult. Now I ask all of you to go to a thesaurus or dictionary and look up liberal. Let’s examine “the L word” first then we’ll move on to a little compare and contrast not to mention long division if everyone plays nice.
If you look in your thesaurus for synonyms to liberal you will find the following words: open-minded, freethinking, moderate, and tolerant among others. These are not only traits I’m proud of, but traits that built this country and traits that we should all be proud of. I’d say giving women the right to vote was a good liberal idea. Civil rights that was a pleasant liberal concept right? Oh, I’ve got another, how about democracy? Here’s a zinger… I wonder if Jesus of Nazareth were alive today if he would be conservative or liberal? You know that guy had to be a hippie, if during the second coming he doesn’t show up in a smoke filled 68’ VW Bus, then I’ll get a purple jump suit some black Nike’s and try and board a comet… Think about it and get back to me on that.
In the interest of producing a fair and balanced op/ed to this blog, I should probably give you some information on the word conservative. As in “Man, don’t worry he’s conservative like us.” I’m going to have you get back out your thesaurus now… Sorry. Let’s look at the word “conservative” as I said I’m just trying to be fair and balanced. Now, the words that are synonymous with conservative in my thesaurus are the following: traditional, conventional, conformist, old-school, unadventurous.
Which way are we going as a country, or better yet which way should we go as a world community? Luckily that’s for all of us to decide
My point though is simple. This political season liberal is not an insult people. So, to sum up… In this year of political hardball really…. (When will anyone other than that blind reporter ask a real question?) Anyway the use of the word liberal as a political insult this season won’t work unless we really don’t get our collective heads out of our collective asses. It’s soo -contract with america…
skeet skeet tom skerritt……
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