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I got so mad about this, about the success of the right wing propaganda machine that I actually called myself a Fabian. The name of the nineteenth century political action group that included GB Shaw seemed fine for me. When I got mad enough I would just call myself a socialist. I knew a guy who owned a half-way house funded by liberal governmental programs and liberal charities and would project this disdain for "liberals." Meanwhile, he manages to pull out more than 40% of the gross from the operation and pay himself $100,000.00 a year. Besides the liberals paying his salary, he benefited from liberal programs to get a community college degree that got him the job that ended up getting him ownership of the operation. I have met hundreds of people like this ingrate and I never understood the hypocrisy. Hopefully, if the left can get their propaganda machine running smoothly, the word Republican and the word conservative can carry a bad connotation for decades to come.
