23 Ways to be a good Democrat in 2006

I know many of you will take this as a Right Wing jab, but I don't post this to instigate, I post this to allow you an opportunity(if you have not already)to investigate these things and see whether or not they are true. If you are an honest person and truly seeking to stand for the convictions you believe the Democratic party is all about, then this should be very educational. In the end though it is more tounge in cheek than anything, and I am sure that Democrats could make a list just as long of things like this that they believe to be true of Republicans. So, can you handle the "reflection"?

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion.

2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity, and be willing to ignore all evidence to the contrary.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than US nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists. Or ANY Nuclear technology in the hands of a rouge nation like Iran or North Korea.

4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV's.

6. You have to believe that traditional gender roles are artificial but alternative gender roles and being homosexual are natural.

7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding and has very little to do with Homosexuality and rampant IV drug use.

8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex and sexuality.

9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.

10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make The Passion Of The Christ for financial gain only.

12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Thomas Edison and A.G. Bell.

15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.

16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and is a very nice person (Most of the time).

17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.

18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liars, drug addicts and sex offenders belong in counseling and are elligeble to hold government office.

19. You have to believe that homosexual parades and art expos displaying drag, transvestites, and beastiality should be constitutionally protected, but manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

2o. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right wing conspiracy.

21. You have to believe that it's okay to give Federal workers Christmas Day off, but it's not okay to say "Merry Christmas" unless your put an X where the Christ used to be.

22. You have to believe that the basic human rights of one terrorist murderer are as or more important than stopping the next 9/11 from happening.

23. You have to believe that freedom of the press trumps our National Security