I think we’re not used to the fact that a liberal (in the classical sense) government can only really work if the people have a common thread of morality which says, essentially, it’s not acceptable behavior to kill other people because you disagree with them. Once you cross that line, you don’t deserve to have your speech protected, your culture lionized, and your rights fought for. You deserve to be destroyed. Maybe that’s harsh, but I think that’s the conclusion that we’re slowly going to reach in the next few years. Liberals (in the non-classical sense) wail and wail about free speech being stifled (while stifling free speech) when it comes to things like rappers not being able to use all five words in their vocabularies, and they talk about how horrible it is that police will include the race of a suspect when trying to capture him, but can’t allow themselves to believe that there are real people in the world that want to kill them just because they don’t agree with them.

If anyone should know this, it’s New York, but it looks like they’re going to vote for Kerry. To quote American Beauty, “never underestimate the power of denial.”