What bothers me about this is the implication that democrats do not care about liberty. There exists a continuum of liberty, and given that we have a constitution, there will always be liberty as it is defined in our constitution and bill of rights. Nothing is going to threat that, except for the assholes who are already in Washington, taking money from corporations, listening to their lobbyists, and trading away our liberties under the guise of 'national security' against an continuously manufactured boogeyman to create the illusion that our liberty is constantly being threatened. This engenders the conservative reaction, who's focus is then not on creating the best possible life for all citizens of this country, but of safeguarding liberty, even if that means taking it away from everybody to do it, with the Patriot Act, National Defense Authorization Act, and SOPA. Everybody wants freedom. That is part of our existence. Republicans are delusional to say that their brand of liberty is somehow better than someone elses, as if they have a monopoly on the idea. They judge from this standpoint, everybody who they see as different, much the same as evangelicals, who, by no coincidence, make up a powerful portion of the republican base. The mainstream of both the liberal and republican camp are to some extent, full of shit, because they all bow down to money. But it is the republican following, who more often than democrats, point the finger and try to set the state for how they think things should be, rather than actually trying to fix things. They, like the terrorists, want to take us back in time, to when things were more glorious. they do not want to move forward, and actually deal with what is.
