Many Liberals Defend Islam the Way Conservatives Defend Guns

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62. Republicans are people, too

Presumably, progressives care about them - since they are human beings.

However, the ideas that form the basis of Republicanism are attacked quite rigorously here.

And the people who choose to follow the belief system of conservatism are also often mocked and derided for doing so - especially because the most extreme Republicans believe in regressive ideas that most of us vehemently disagree with.

One should be as free to be critical of the belief system of Islam or Christianity or Judaism or any other religion in the same way that we are critical of Republicanism or conservatism or what have you.

If a writer went off on Republicans, would this be your response:

"Republicanism must be the worst, most awfulest evil thing ever. Now if course, all this writer could possibly know about Republicans is that they are connected to this belief system that he sees as the epitome of all evil.

So a faceless, meaningless horde of non-people defined exclusiely by all these evil things and hatreds, 150 million strong. But he doesn't hate Republicans. Sure he doesn't."