It's Bigger Than We Think

I wince when someone labels himself a "Conservative" or a "Liberal"  Especially when they are a "true conservative" or a "true liberal".  There ain't no such species.  Never was.  Never will be.

For instance, the founders of the Tea Party wear clothing.  Great Gadzooks!  Our forbearers, way, way back, the "TRUE HUMANS" didn't wear clothing.  The liberals among them had not invented loin cloths or jock straps or "over the shoulder boulder holders".  Not only that, but Tea Party members ride in cars, on airplanes and don't smell of horse manure.  A slightly true conservative would be looking back at the horse and buggy days as the "Better Days" when no one stole, when men were men and women were women and gays non-existent.  OK, maybe they do smell of bull manure.

The blind conservatives don't realize how much "progress" they have embraces in order to flaunt their so called brand of purity.

Lest I forget the true liberals, every one of them hearkens back to something, some value, some memory, some good old day, in some way.  There is no true progressive, no true liberal, either.  Not 100%.

In fact, we are all a mixture of looking backwards and looking forward, of nostalgia and hope, of being glad for something in our past (maybe even just being born) and being glad for our iPhone or car or pizza  takeout.  (I remember when there were only the two, first, pizza places in all of the Seattle metro area.  I got my pizza from one of them.)

Looking for purity in people is like looking for purity in an active volcano.  Everything is pretty much mixed up, just in different amounts and different ways.

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