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J. Wellington Wimpy from E. C. Segar's comic strip, "Thimble Theater" (better known by its most popular character, Popeye) is the perfect icon to use to represent the general liberal mindset. Like Wimpy, many liberals might seem intellectual and well-educated, but they also tend to be cowardly, lazy, jaded, devil-may-care, and parasitic; always trying to slide by in life taking the "easy way"; the road of least resistance and responsibility. These are the same people who believe in putting full faith in the government to take care of necessities and responsibilities they should strive to tend to themselves.

As Shakespeare's character, Polonius, said in "Hamlet", "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." Sound wisdom to take to heart, for it is the rich who rule over the poor, and the borrower becomes the lender's slave. There are no free rides in life, and the price you pay for getting something cheap and easy is often more costly than actually putting forth the effort it would take to do it yourself. The current state of our country should be evidence of why the liberal mindset is a dangerous and self-destructive one, for as it stands we now have more people on welfare in this country than are fully-employed and working. We have a nation of borrowers who have become the complacent and willing slaves to a ruthless unsympathetic lender; more commonly known as the Federal Government.

Not that I have an overwhelming degree of respect for the conservative mindset either, but I've often found conservatives to be a far cry more rational then most liberals that I've spoken with. Of course my true feelings may best be summed up with a phrase I read not too long ago while researching both Liberalism and Conservatism on the web. "Liberalism is a state of mind where a person's mind is so open that their brain falls out, while Conservatism is a state of mind where a person's mind is so closed that it suffocates." I don't waste my time with either extreme of the spectrum. I'll take plain truth and reason, and let others bicker mindlessly over their political alignments.

Another iconic character one might use to respresent the liberal mindset is the grasshopper from the old fable about the Grasshopper and the Ant...and we all know what became of the grasshopper.

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J. Wellington Wimpy from E. C. Segar's comic strip, "Thimble Theater" (better known by its most popular character, Popeye) is the perfect icon to use to represent the general liberal mindset. Like Wimpy, many liberals might seem intellectual and well-educated, but they also tend to be cowardly, lazy, jaded, devil-may-care, and parasitic; always trying to slide by in life taking the "easy way"; the road of least resistance and responsibility. These are the same people who believe in putting full faith in the government to take care of necessities and responsibilities they should strive to tend to themselves.

As Shakespeare's character, Polonius, said in "Hamlet", "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." Sound wisdom to take to heart, for it is the rich who rule over the poor, and the borrower becomes the lender's slave. There are no free rides in life, and the price you pay for getting something cheap and easy is often more costly than actually putting forth the effort it would take to do it yourself. The current state of our country should be evidence of why the liberal mindset is a dangerous and self-destructive one, for as it stands we now have more people on welfare in this country than are fully-employed and working. We have a nation of borrowers who have become the complacent and willing slaves to a ruthless unsympathetic lender; more commonly known as the Federal Government.

Not that I have an overwhelming degree of respect for the conservative mindset either, but I've often found conservatives to be a far cry more rational then most liberals that I've spoken with. Of course my true feelings may best be summed up with a phrase I read not too long ago while researching both Liberalism and Conservatism on the web. "Liberalism is a state of mind where a person's mind is so open that their brain falls out, while Conservatism is a state of mind where a person's mind is so closed that it suffocates." I don't waste my time with either extreme of the spectrum. I'll take plain truth and reason, and let others bicker mindlessly over their political alignments.

Another iconic character one might use to respresent the liberal mindset is the grasshopper from the old fable about the Grasshopper and the Ant...and we all know what became of the grasshopper.