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(21,043 posts)we are made up by all kinds of people, and we allow ourselves to be who we are, and don't force one another to fit into a mold. We are artists, environmentalists, poor folks that love family, descendants of immigrants, rich folks with a conscience, people of black, red, and brown skin who are ALLOWED to speak of the atrocities done to them in the past rather than obligated to hide those atrocities, and many many more. Libs are not, will not be, and cannot be forced into some lockstep, standardized, non-thinking, sig-heiling model. We don't believe in that, and we couldn't be so psychologically sick even if we tried.
That's what makes it so easy for Republicans to use the church as their organizing tool, and why churches became the right arm of the Republican Party - Republicans *ARE* those lock-step, sig-heiling types. Republicans *ARE* those types that can be forced to fit into square pegs by their authority. Republicans are willing, want to, and need to fit into strict, little roles with limited rules and a heavy-handed authority. No free spirits ever allowed.
We libs can't function that way, and would be a hellish life to have to. We just can't function in that psychologically sick way right wingers do.
I say our only option is to destroy the BORG (Republicans lol) that has been in control of this country since 1981. We can do this by discrediting and taking tax exemption away from their right arm (churches) every chance we get, and also by discrediting Republicans themselves at the very core of those things they *claim* to uphold: sexual rigidity, religion, family "values," honesty, etc. etc., because if Republicans are one thing for sure it is this: hypocrites.
Oh by the way, I agree with you on boy scouts! Anything strictly male and "tough" is like that - right wing - we MAN, we TOUGH! We beat up enemy kind of thing, that's part of the right wing thinking. Same with the military - very right wing automatically. Anything that requires toughness and danger is always in risk of landing itself into the right wing extremist nest.