Dear "Liberals"...

You know how you feel when conservatives make derisive remarks about progressive ideas like work safety, fair trade, prisoners' rights, universal healthcare, and environmental controls?

Well, that's how some of us feel when you make derisive remarks about feminism.

That's how we feel when you make derisive remarks about animal liberation.

That's how we feel when you want gays to shut up about gay marriage.

It seems that liberals now have a menu, and choose which issues are deserving of a campaign for peace and justice and which are not. Fed up with women's "demands"? Off the list. Don't want to give up your factory farm burgers and animal-tested cosmetics? Off the list. Irritated with "gay this, gay that"? Off the list.

The Democratic Party gave up on liberal values a long time ago in exchange for a corporate-run America and silence about right-wing crimes against the nation. This is one of the many reasons I am no longer a Democrat. Conservatives do not pick and choose their issues, but wage war on behalf of all of them. Pity they have liberals helping them with some of their campaigns.