oh come on!
That was funny...
In absolute truth NDP do not smoke up at Starbucks.. and most do not read newspapers while there.
Technically, they smoke their choice of 'fair trade tobacco' ("weed" would be included in this designation normally) behind the restaurant in "NDP alley", a designated public smoking area, and trot back in to pour over their 16 inch lap top computers.. and they worry about the weather in foreign countries... and as to whether taking a public a position on raising money for the latest disaster in Asia will garner votes or look too opportunistic.
Most NDP are educated, literate, make fine dinner guests, tend to dress well. Their working class brethren pretend to decorum as passive-aggressive loyalists of unions.
NDP are mostly anti-mining in one way or another, whether or not they work for mines.. I worked at an iron mine in Ontario and most of the workforce there voted for the NDP. At the time the NDP had been single handedly responsible for almost completely destroying in turn the mining industry of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and British Columbia. It did not seem to bother the workers to any degree. "Here it's/they're different" they seemed to say. It displays an interesting ability to live placidly with gigantic mental dichotomies that would make the Grand Canyon look like an irrigation ditch.
swiftmagazine.com
Casual debates can be tricky. On one hand, you must not compromise any of your liberal ideals; on the other, it is also not considered cool to seem stubborn or anti-intellectual. But with a little practice, you'll find that you can handle every argument with flair and come out looking like a great defender of your cause. Remember, the people you're really trying to impress are already on your side; appear confident, and you'll win them over.
Why Argue at All?
It may not seem immediately obvious why you have to pay any attention to evil i-bankers or backwoods hicks who don't understand your vision of peace and harmony for the world. Why can't you just laugh indulgently and ignore them? The reason is that part of what liberals like is an idea called "Free Speech." It is derived from a Constitutional amendment that puts restraints on the government's ability to silence people, but the liberal interpretation is a little bit different. While liberals don't have a problem with the government silencing really bad groups like the Ku Klux Klan, they believe that people with more innocent viewpoints have an obligation to talk constantly about them. Silence is unofficially outlawed, so part of appearing liberal is talking back.
The essence of liberalism...
"Meredith" is a poor person living in inner city Chicago. When taxes are cut and the economy booms, she has two children and no source of support, and she cries. The intersection of all those fancy lines(doesn't change this, does it? (Editor's note: "fancy lines" here means economics graphs)
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