The problem with liberals is that for all of their perceived intellectual superiority, they almost always demonstrate a massive deficit of social intelligence. This leaves them unsuccessful in almost all competitive endeavors except individual academics, which does not require social intelligence. But lacking social intelligence, they are unable to parlay their academic success into success outside of non-competitive fields, so they end up in non-competitive arenas like government and academia, and of course “journalism”. Not satisfied, they are embittered when they see others who may have been “C” students but have high levels of social intelligence become leaders and attain much higher levels of wealth and success. Their response: use that which they can control (government, academia, media) to dismantle merit based systems (everything from free markets to children's sports) in favor of forced “equality.” Want a six-figure salary on forty hours per week max and no chance of getting fired without committing murder? Get a job with the Federal Government. Don’t want to work at all- the Feds have you covered there too. Those who have to do real work and aren’t in the bottom 47% that pay no income tax will pay the bills for it all, even it does run 15 trillion over what we bring in.  Fortunately for those of us that appreciate the good that comes of competition, the ever sanctimonious, self-righteous liberal does more to offend others than to convince them of the merits of their arguments. However, they have made strong inroads over the decades in convincing more and more Americans that the path of least resistance is to opt of out of hard work and competitive endeavors and depend instead on handouts from their big government monopoly.  Behind closed doors, they long wistfully for the good old days of long bread lines in the Soviet Union where everyone was equal (except of course those who, perhaps like them, controlled the government, and hence the schools and media). Nothing screams of a complete lack of social intelligence like “from each according to his ability and to each according to his need,” especially when accompanied by the smashingly successful capitalist success story: the Che t-shirt.  They have a big problem though when Americans start using that pesky Constitution to receive information out side of their hegemonous liberal media, though. With great indignation they condemn Fox News as the purveyors of blasphemous lies. “How dare they question our Annointed One?!?”  Also fortunately for us, the Founding Fathers, who did not lack social intelligence but understood man quite well, first guaranteed our freedom of speech, religion, and press (actually hated by liberals for all but the right to hear their point of view and of course to view child porn— just as long as you aren’t producing it [see ACLU]).  They then protected those rights and the rest with the second amendment which is the only reason they still exist. So while liberals may be able to mock those who don’t bow down before their king (in the same manner that skinny, sunken-chested nerds may mock the school quarterback), they haven’t yet devised a way to separate those of us with weapons from that which protects our rights, but not for lack of trying (reference Operation Fast and Furious). So mock all you want, but realize the more you push to separate us from what we’ve earned in the name of giving it to some dirty pothead living in a park, the closer we come to blows. I can assure you that is a fight we are going to win every time. Sic Semper Tyrannus.