Aw gee, I thought this was Martin’s roast, but I see it has become, like so many threads here, another episode of the Starving Artist show. So be it.
Mr. Artist, sir, I am forever indebted to you. I consider myself a liberal, yet for some reason I have never been able to explain adequately to anyone, much less myself, what that might have meant. No one else who considered themselves liberal on this board ever seemed willing to explain what that meant either.
Fortunately, you gone to an enormous amount of effort over the past couple of years describing what liberals think and what they really mean, since what they say, according to you, is only occasionally what they mean. In fact, the bulk of your posts seem to consist of sweeping generalizations about what this or that so-called ‘liberal’ thinks, or deciphering the strange coded language, a code not even known to themselves, in which they speak. I am so glad you can spend the amount of time you do on what may often seem like an unattainable goal.
It must have been very difficult indeed to have gained all this accurate inside knowledge of liberalism, given that you have repeatedly mentioned that you have no liberal tendencies yourself, and since we are so very inarticulate about our beliefs. Talk about a work ethic!
Besides that, there is the admirable degree of restraint with which you hold back your obvious contempt for those who do not precisely share your views. I just want to assure you that I understand what a strain it must be to have to talk down to us, and how much we all appreciate your heroic self-control.
So, for your diligent and untiring efforts to explain us to ourselves in a language simple enough for us to understand, sir, I salute you.
