You're right, Tom. People aren't birds. We're all far more individual than birds. Yet even birds, with their little dinosaur brains, cannot be put in just one compartment based on what they eat, where they live, or whether they migrate. As they are different from each other, so are humans. Except birds' differences are species differences, whereas human differences are derived from our intelligence and our varied experiences in the world.Human beings will continue to defy the efforts of pigeonholers to force them into behavioral categories based on a set group of criteria.

The very fact that you feel the need to strip away the individuality of the big-L Liberals, as you call them, by defining them in this negative group way tells me far more about you than it does about them. When one person attempts to strip away the personality of another and to place him in a faceless group defined by immutable characteristics, the effect is to strip him of his face and fingerprints and create an Other. When sufficient Others are defined and grouped, then one has a Menace, which one may loathe and strive to control without concern for any humans involved. Because there aren't any.

Except there are.

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Mary Anne