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[ConservativeDemocrat]

195. Your lack of self-awareness is astounding

In the very same post you're asking for an example of someone purity trolling, you quote yourself. I'm astounded that you're so blind.

Let me explain a bit of reality to you:
* Self-identified "very liberal" people represent 6% of the country, and only 10% of the Democratic party
* The fringe left, by which I will define as "people who think Obama holds center right views and/or is Republican-lite" represents about a third of that, which means your opinions represent about 2% of the country.
* Regarding your belief that "We are part of a larger movement. But you resent us for it." Nobody resents you for your fringe reality-divorced views about how popular you really aren't. Some get upset at your "more liberal than thou" sanctimony, as if you are some sort of moral arbiter of anything
* The person who you were addressing, was not only a Democrat, but almost certainly a liberal Democrat. Not good enough for a purity troll though.
* You were also purity trolling because you imagine that anything less than your absolutist view for some nebulous ideal is "FIGHTING FOR" (what you consider to be) "Republican corporate policy". Even if anything less than your absolutist hatred of "corporatism" (a.k.a. free trade) was something that Republicans could claim (which is very much in doubt - they're economic royalists not free trade advocates at all), you seem to imagine that compromising with Republicans means you're fighting "for" them. This is akin to the way neo-cons pretend that coming to an agreement with the Iranians is fighting "for" terrorists.
* Your concept of "fighting for" all these beliefs is spending hours writing long obnoxious sanctimonious insults about people who are, by and large, rowing in the same direction that you are - discouraging them, and driving down their willingness to be activists.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community