I'm pretty much a yellow-dog democrat from Missouri. I'm liberal with a certain sense of propriety (as in, if you're an ax-murderer, proven guilty, etc. I'd be happy if they'd put you to sleep rather than fear you're going to be released back into the populace some day).
Despite my parents' conservative, Southern upbringings, I somehow developed a sense of fairness and 'hey, that's just not the right way to treat people' idea as an adolescent. I was hospitalized a lot as a child and the black LPNs were the kindest of the caretakers, more than my parents probably realized (or would have approved of). And in my current job at a Large Government Employer, I love the variety of people I work with, all races, sexes, etc.
i'm not gonna post a lot, but it will always be about something that is bugging me. I tried to let the political things ride, but now I'm really annoyed.
i despair for our country. Not just because of the Giffords shooting, though that is one of the things that makes me despair. Political conversation has become meaner, more bitter, nastier, and uglier than I have ever remembered it.
There are things my 85-year-mother doesn't bring up because I have had to tell her I won't let her tell me because i'll argue, and she'd rather stick her hand into a roaring fire than to cause an argument. Unfair much? not really. Among other things, she listens to RL all the time he's on the radio.
My inclination is to always be kind to those who don't think the way I do, because everyone is entitled to their opinion. but sometimes they don't want to be kind to me, or to people who think like me. As I progress here, I hope to bring a kind, but thoughtful kind of commentary from the real left, I'm a yellow dog democrat in Missouri so my heart is pretty much an open book.