BTW, a new Washington Post Poll asked people the following question:
The result: 58% said they wanted smaller government with fewer services, and only 38% said they wanted larger government with more services.
The same poll asked people to identify themselves as liberal, moderate, or conservative. The result was 25% liberal, 34% moderate, and 38% conservative.
You’re just going to have to face the fact that you live in a center-right country, where most people are skeptical of big government and conservative or moderate in outlook. And that the real liberals are actually a fairly small percentage of the country.
And you know, these numbers will probably get bigger for conservatives. I’m actually quite surprised tha they are as high as they are after 8 years of Bush leading into a major recession. If the Democrats continue to govern from the left, and the economy doesn’t make a dramatic turnaround, you’re going to see a majority of the country calling itself conservative and ‘liberal’ will once again be a dirty word that no one wants to claim for themselves.