Neanderpundit

In more than one instance I have watched followers of the hard left partyline get hammered by their own people for disagreeing with anything their overlords posit.

On the other hand, it’s not only considered acceptible but nearly mandatory that conservatives question- and in the case of this horrid immigration bill, attempt to counter- the actions of their party leaders.

The idea of thinking for yourself and making up your own mind is “supposed” to be the exclusive property of the left, but IN the left, you can only make up your own mind if you end up agreeing with the party line.

“there’s a sucker born every minute” applies nowhere more thoroughly than to people who would believe that more government is good, that higher taxes are good, that government controlled anything is good.

Questioning authority is the only way to behave- and you have to question the authority you most trust first.

Pascal has a very interesting and uncharacteristically terse post here about labels.

He’s damned right, too. We HAVE to have labels, to identify ourself. And some of those labels can do us as much harm as they do good. Conservative. Liberal. Gun nut. SF reader. Trekkie. Lawyer.

labels have varying degrees of accuracy, and no matter what label we attach to ourself, we can find some part of that label we can disagree with. And do.

What labels do you present to the world? which do you shun in others?