Be a Proud Liberal (The West Wing)

A really loud, really good speech from The West Wing where Democratic strategist Bruno Gianelli explains why liberals should be proud of who they are. I saw this for the first time just hours ago, and I couldn't help but smile thinking about the future, in light of the election. Sorry about the somewhat poor video quality.
NetRunnersays...

The Democratic Party hasn't learned this lesson yet.

But the netroots have.

This is why the right wing try to smear Daily Kos and Huffington Post every chance they get. They've learned the lesson Bruno's talking about here. They've learned that we shouldn't cower and hide who we are and what we believe. We shouldn't accept the labels others place on us to demean and distort our philosophy, we need to defend ourselves, and toss some demeaning yet completely accurate labels going back the other way.

The game has changed since the Clinton years.

rougysays...

Fist in the air!

Time to give as good as we got.

Most cons don't understand "cooperation."

Not on the Washington level.

They will never understand their slights until we give them a taste of their own medicine.

I'm not talking eternal conflict.

I want them to know what it feels like to be called a traitor.

NordlichReitersays...

Fuck two parties.

Fuck stereotype.

There are good liberals: Kucinich, Grayson, and that bald guy. I can't remember his name, the one that talked about martial law. Franken seems like a smart fellow, and he reminds me of Lewis Black.

There are bad conservatives, like the whole of those fuckers that voted against Franken's amendment to make felonies non arbitrary offenses.

But I am more of a New Hampshire type Libertarian and I cannot stand the current system as it is. The 2nd amendment is one that should not be infringed upon, but is used by the ignorant to push some very stupid ideas. Half of these people I would think haven't a clue what it is like to use a weapon in defense, or offense. I cannot stand police intimidation, and I cannot stand this unjust fear of the Justice System. Or Private Prison Systems! Now we have private police officers!

I have to say, you fools keep arguing about right and left while these great injustices are perpetrated on our tired, our poor, our retched refuse, our homeless, and tempest-toss.

You want true liberty? Or a place to truly have your Liberal, Conservative thought? Start with ending the Federal Reserve. Then move on to the lobby. Then move on to the Military Industrial Complex. Remove the monetary cost to get elected to Office the monetary cost that stops the poor from being a part of the system.

But most of all! Break these goddamned Stereo types: Right, Left, Moderate, Statist, Centrists, Libertarian, and so on. Fuck that we are United States Citizens fucking act like it.

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