Comment Re: "The Beating of a Liberal" (Score 2, Insightful) 56
I paid for part of my education by serving in the USMC.
I'm educated. Like many educated people, I'm pretty fucking liberal (by American political standards).
Tax the wealthy at a reasonable level, tax corporations at a reasonable level, pull out of foreign engagements, and actually pay for Americans to be healthy and educated. Increased safety and happiness will likely follow. I don't give a shit what you do in your bedroom, so long as it's consensual - keep your religion out of my politics. Close the loopholes and actually make them pay their share.
You know, that sorta shit...
By the American-right standards, that makes me a 'commie pinko fag'.
I actually don't mind paying taxes. My tax burden is pretty high, but I could easily stand higher rates. (I don't even write off most charitable donations, as my way of doing a bit more. Nor do I keep track and write off all sorts of things that I could easily, and legally, claim as expenses.) I do mind how my taxes are spent.
So, while the OP is a troll, I dare say not all Marines are going to want to harm liberals. If anything, many of us would defend them from the morons who'd inflict harm based on political ideology.