'Liberal Orthodoxy' 2

Liberal 'free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant:' An Oxymoron you might call.. 'Liberal Orthodoxy' but that is what i see. My experience is that we have a very definite fearful herd mentality going on the Left and the Right. What i have been seeing for quite awhile because I reside in a Liberal community, Marin County, California, is a complacent blindness to current administrations because they are 'our' guys. Example Gov. Jerry Brown (Fracking, loosening of Environmental Standards, Mandates of Growth) or Pres. Barack Obama (Debt, Growth of Security Apparatus, Fracking and other Environmental damage, Corporate Trade, etc.) That we accept actions that if they had been Republicans people would be out on the streets in uproar. I see a wall of indoctrinated fear or if you are a Politician you can build the Straw Dog enemy just as Bush Jr did.. fear Liberals.. fear Republicans. The big issues of our day need to be addressed by people not wearing a Red or a Blue tie.

The issues of our day are buried under a complacency and a sad cynical drift, which might reflect reality but if we/I do not step up and try to influence reality how do I/we know what is possible. Anyhow I talk to Republicans, I like 'wacko T Party people' (some of them) and agree with some of their premises (ex. national debt), Though the TParty Express of the Koch Brothers is the antipathy of common sense conservatism. I do believe that like Confucious thousands of years ago said .. something like 'a government that governs least works pretty good' . I am ultimately a Nature Lover that wishes humans would respect the Earth. I like Victor Frankl's suggestion (author of 'Man's Search for Meaning' Beacon Press) that Americans should have a Statue of Responsibility (Response Ability) to balance the Statue of Liberty. I believe if you try to control Nature (too much) you get chaos. A friend whose positive outlook on life is one of the best claimed that we live 'in Germany 1937' .... Who are 'we Good Americans'? I see Liberal Orthodoxy in Jon Stewart and Colbert. Nice guys but as a friend tells me they don't tolerate Republican Bullshit. Which is great as long as you have that same spirit to not tolerate Liberal Bullshit. Just listening to Jon Stewart on his show that followed the recent ....