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Cranky/Preachy

There’s an old expression: a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged.

I think there’s a correlative to that. I think a liberal is a conservative who’s been laid off, or whose job has just been outsourced to Mexico or India so a corporation can reduce its overhead. Or a conservative who’s just been diagnosed with a serious illness that his health insurance refuses to pay for. Or whose son or daughter has been killed in combat in some profit-driven war. Maybe a liberal is a conservative who’s tired of rooting for the bully, who’s tired of rewarding cruelty and heartlessness.

Maybe a liberal is a conservative who finally starts to think for himself.