I am a progressive person. I believe in equal rights, the right to vote without undo obstruction, equal pay for equal work, feeding hungry children and seniors, clean air and water, not to encourage our home planet to turn against us, preservation of our natural and world heritage in our parks and preservation of the wonders of our common human past, I believe that wars, since WWII, are for profit enterprizes and should be avoided, everyone has dignity and deserves respect, education is my resposibility to younger generations and will pay taxes to do so that every child can have the best we can, an will, offer, I don't think the state should put people to death for revenge, I believe in noblesse oblige which is the ancient dictum that the wealthy have an obligation to use some of their wealth and power t o do good, I am an atheist who believes the values as attributed to Jesus in the New Testament are a good way to try to live ones life, guns kill people-period, I want everyone that I am not interacting with DIRECTLY the hell out of my internet, taxes are what we pay for freedom, golf is a good walk spoiled (M Twain), "If you want to live like a Republican, vote for a Democrat" (HST). Thank you for reading this Proustian stream of one sentence.
I fear that all of us here are in danger of repression for our sincere beliefs, and I will quote you the first line of the second verse of The National Anthem that many of you have never read; "And thus be it ever, when free men shall stand, between their loved homes and the war's desolation..." Let us all stand for our freedom and that #1 and most important right of freedom of expression.
I hope that I am worthy of being a free person in a free America.