@Noel_S_Leitmotiv – in my view, the liberal preponderance for bumper stickers generally only seems to apply to those who would plaster their car with such statements, and then yes, I agree that often there are people who are basically screaming “look at me” because of their personal insecurities. But in terms of one bumper sticker on a car vs. another I see just as many smug self important expressions on the left as on the right. Bottom line is you did not say “some” liberals are dependent on liberalism for their identity, you made an ignorant blanket statement.
And you seem to be saying via your turning around my ‘prefer peace to war’ into ‘prefer war to peace’ that I was making a statement that this is the conservative preference. In fact, I was doing nothing of the kind, but I think you are making a blanket assumption (and remember, when you ass/u/me…well you get the picture) that the ONLY people who would like to see an end to war enough to express that opinion on their bumpers would be liberals.
By your standard, someone who says “war is not the answer” on their bumper sticker is a) automatically assumed to be a liberal who looks to liberalism for his own self identity (sheesh, talk about a gross oversimplification), and b) shows himself to be smug and self-gratifying by not proposing an alternative. What, on a fucking BUMPER? You think the answer to ending all the world’s conflicts is simple enough to express in 2 lines of text?
In my view, pointing out that war is not the answer (and NO, I do NOT have that bumper sticker) is simply pointing out that perhaps there are other ways. Maybe not giving you a highly distilled version of their answer, something along the lines of “DIPLOMACY NOW” will make you think, gee, maybe there IS another way, let’s think about this problem and come up with something say too substantive to put on a bumper sticker.
I find your dismissal and the motivations you ascribe to a blanket group of people to be arrogant and ignorant.