Libareal, Liberel, Libiril - however some of our dyslexic members seem to spell the word - is a complex thing. No scrap that. It's a simple thing. They are, after all simple folk. They require absolutes. X is me, therefore Y is them.
Who is 'them'? Well they are a bit cagey about that - suffice to say; not the conservatives.
Actually, while we are at it, who are the conservatives? Well they are a self defining lot. Indeed they are the ones that seem to like defining. They are the ones who have decided that the world is as simple as X and Y. They are the ones who have decided that they are X and the others are Y. In fact so taken with this definition of life the universe and everything that they go merrily applying it to all situations, past, present and hypothetical.
Did you ever know, before now that Stalin and Hitler were in fact Liberills? Before now, did you ever realise that suicide bombers were Libiraels and B52 bombers were conservatives? I didn't. And I have found this new approach a breath of fresh air, in what I had always thought was a complex and pluralistic world.
Perhaps that's what appeals. The simplicity. KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid. An idea to live by.
The only problem I have is that I am not a conservative. And this has led me to the uncomfortable realisation that according to the new thinking I must be a Liboral. I'm shocked at this, and not a little appalled. I have been dilligently reading 3 or 4 lenghty articles, genreously cut and pasted from quality sources (well the must be good as they call themselves Conservative News, and advertise where you can get a hot conservative date for the weekend, and offer more exposes about Bill Clinton - can anyone ever get enough of those?) And all these sources carefully point to one conclusion - Libbirols are the scourge of the world. Through their.. er.. actions (or inactions) they are basically selling out our world to an evil cabal of islamic environmentalist communists who practice positive gay abortion descrimination before giving money to suicide bombers by way of welfare bonuses. (I may have got the last bit a little mixed up - my head is swimming with the list of crimes my ilk have committed).
I think there is light at the end of the tunnel though. I think I should embrace my new libiarel identity. I should be proud of who conservatives think I am. So now I am on the hunt for a leader. Apparently Bill Clinton is the best pick. He seems to be ideologically close to Stalin, that other icon of my new political creed (I spent a while trying to puzzle out how this could be based on their starkly different political perspectives on the control of the means of production and the relationship between economic base and political superstructure - but I have realised that this is just old thinking - time to embrace the simpler new way). However, despite Clinton's obvious merits (lack of personal morals, a few bits of legislation about gay rights... er.. conservatives hate him..) He came up short. You see, I just can't get over how.. well .. conservative the guy is. I mean smoking cigars, hanging out on yachts, getting juicy donations from corporations, being rich, supporting Israel, starting wars. He just isn't the baby killing, godless commie I am looking for.
Tony Blair cropped up as possible - democratic socialism as he calls it - sounds like he should be on track for the sort of homo, muslim worshipping I need. But once again I found him lacking. They guy even goes to church - not to mention gets involved in wars. A thorough disappointment. I went for others but found them equally hopeless.
Chirac - Capitalist - no good for the commie I am supposed to be
Kim Il Sung - Authoritarian - I need a weakling god damn it!
President of Iran... he's too religious, that really doesn't work. Probably anti-abortion too.
The list goes on.
So now I am leaderless. I have decided to undertake a quest, to find my spiritual leader. I shall travel far and wide, look high and low for the craven gutless sponger the conservatives have told me I follow.
However there remains one problem. It's a big problem. I sit here unable to progress until I resolve this. I have studied the great works of the conservatives on this board. Read carefully each line. Re-read and compared. And still I have no clear spelling of Libberole!
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