Do you buy into the entire "liberal agenda?"

[markpkessinger]

62. A straw man of a premise supported by straw men arguments

1. As for drug legalization, there are liberals to be found on both sides of that question. Also, there are varying degrees of legalization that liberals/progressives support -- some support only legalization of marijuana and that solely for medical uses; others support legalization of marijuana (but not other drugs) for recreational purposes as well. Still others would extend legalization to many other, or even all other, illicit drugs. Out of those many positions liberals/progressive might support (including opposition to legalization) represents the "liberal agenda," in your view?

2. First, I gotta say that complaints about political correctness, as opposed to political correctness in and of itself, have become the tail that wags the dog. In most cases, what is derisively dismissed as 'political correctness' is really just a call fora little respect for others, and a sensitivity to their experiences (experiences that may be quite different from your own) -- in other words, civility and good manners. So, in that context, what exactly is your definition of being "carried to extremes?" And can you point to a single legislative initiative, sponsored by liberals/progressives anywhere in the country that has sought to enshrine such "political correctness carried to extremes" into law, in such a way that it could legitimately be construed as part of some "liberal agenda?"

3. I have seen no one -- save for the occasional outlier -- who really assumes the police are always wrong. What I see is that, because of so many documented incidents of police having acted wrongfully, and then having lied about it, people are no longer willing to reflexively believe police accounts of incidents involving alleged police misconduct. It isn't so much that police assume police are always wrong; it is rather that people are no longer willing to assume police are always right, or that police versions of events are necessarily truthful. I think it is a far healthier state of affairs for all concerned that police accounts of events involving alleged police misconduct are held up to the same level of skepticism and scrutiny as is the account of any individual accused of any other crime. I don't think you can even establish that the assumption that police are always wrong even genuinely exists to any significant respect (again, save for some outliers here and there), let alone demonstrate that such an assumption is part of some "liberal agenda."

Now, it may well be that your position on any or all of these issues places you at odds with a great many liberals/progressives. But given the varying degrees of support or opposition that exist among liberals/progressives to any of these issues, the assertion that there is some sort of mindless conformity going on that parallels that of the GOP is really prety lame. Hell, we liberals/progressives can't even agree among ourselves as to who genuinely is a 'liberal/progressive!'