Liberal. Passionate, but lacking in detail, Caring for others, but not so caring for the economy

Typical Democrat: Don’t Bother Me With the Details

By Fred Dardick
Saturday, August 15, 2009

I’ve recently exchanged emails with a good friend and Obama healthcare reform supporter from the city of Chicago, let’s call him Keith. Keith is a die hard liberal who is quite typical of the area. No matter the argument, no matter the situation, the Democrats always right and the Republicans are always wrong.

I wrote an article on healthcare reform last week explaining how crazy it was for President Obama to think he could do a better job of managing healthcare in this country than our current free market system. Basically saying that only a community organizer could view the $2.4 trillion U.S. healthcare system as ripe pickings for government takeover, and not the free market engine of health and prosperity that it truly is.

Keith read the piece and emailed me his feedback.

His thoughts were a fascinating example of exactly, spot on what you would expect from a liberal. Passionate, but lacking in detail. Caring for others, but not so caring for the economy.

However, even with his Democrat background, I figured at the very least Keith had to have heard one or two things about Obama’s healthcare reform that concerned him, it sure seems like everyone else has.

I figured wrong.

Keith’s reasoning was strait out of MSNBC. The first point in his email, cannily on cue, was a jab at Republicans: “The right has very little constructive to say about this subject. They simply know that they are going to shout down reasonable and important legislation offering nothing in the way of good ideas themselves.â€