Always making friends.

I follow Jamie Dupree on Facebook. This has been the biggest threat to my health since I quit smoking.

The vast majority of respondents to his posts appear to be Conservative or Republican, but the few that are Liberal are SO Liberal that it staggers the imagination. I have rarely in my life encountered people with an utter incapacity to accept a reasonable logical argument to any point they may have. More often than not these 'conversations' end with my being called any number of names, 'racist' most recently, or I get "What would Jesus do?" These are responses to arguments made by me that I should get to keep the money I earn for me and mine, and then maybe I will be charitable to what people or causes I choose. Arguments that I should not have to fund government programs that facilitate a lifestyle of entitlement for an entire segment of the population that feels they have a right to my money to pay utility bills and buy food, while spending whatever cash they can get on shoes and nails and cell phones and flat screens and cigarettes and handbags and Sean Jean for their 3 toddlers. Racist, right?

I have most recently argued that Altruism should be a choice. To this I got a reply of 'What would Jesus have to say or do about that?" I replied that Jesus is conspicuously absent, isn't he? To that, I received, " Okay, keep your money," and something to the extent of how dare he "suggest that we help each other." This was the end of this. A snotty little look-down-my-nose at you snipe. No argument as to why the government should be able to tax me to give to someone else...

There really is nothing other than blind party-line allegiance at work most of the time. And with a zeal that is truly frightening. Idealism, plain and simple. No logic, no reason, no room for admission of imperfection of thought, no room for Capitalism, no room for independence, no willingness to admit that there is a large portion of the population that is truly abusive of the system that Liberals are so desperate to build and grow...I am willing to admit that the way we are doing things leaves a lot of gaps for people to fall through, but I cannot get one concession that people for the most part make their own beds. Not one. Because it's easier to call me a racist.