Reply #52: Proud, going to try and find a sliver of common ground [View All]

[dave29]

I am employed, and would request you not assume we all go to Wal-Mart and buy plastic crap that will wind up in a landfill or around the necks of marine life. Some of us who are Democrats are proud environmentalists, like you appear to be. Some of us are frugal, because we have to be. Some of us absolutely need the help of others.

We can't just turn our backs on the unemployed because we don't like "what should have been" or the system as it is today -- it is simply irresponsible. As you say building communities is up to us, but that does mean we have to work TOGETHER, and that inevitably means compromise, unless you want to wipe everyone who disagrees with you from the face of the planet.

We won't make progress by peeing on everyone else's lot simply because we don't like our own.