Why do conservatives assume liberals support everything Obama does?
First, before you guys start crying "where is the liberal outrage over Syria?", let me make something perfectly clear:
I am against going into Syria.
I am as against going into Syria as I was Iraq, Afghanistan and everywhere else we've invaded in the past decade.
I will continue to speak out against war and attend anti-war protests no matter who is president.
And while I'm clearing things up, let me also say that I am against government spying, prosecuting whistleblowers, the police state, and a long laundry list of other things Obama is doing. The difference between you and me is that I have always been against these things, whereas most of you are only against them now that Obama is president.
So my question is, are you actually paying attention to what's going on, or do you just assume that if conservatives are against something (now, because you hate Obama, even though you were for it under Bush), that means liberals automatically love it?
And would you please stop doing that? Thanks.
@LibertyLover: anarcho-socialism IS a liberal philosophy.
Democrat does not automatically mean liberal.
@DinDjinn: because they talk about it all the time. I'm constantly seeing, "why do liberals love [insert thing Obama is doing that liberals don't actually love]?" and "where are the liberals now that Obama is doing [insert thing conservatives praised Bush for that they suddenly realize is bad now that Obama is doing it]?"
Answer: I'm right here! I protested government corruption then and I'm protesting it now. I haven't changed my positions on anything, and yet conservatives continue to falsely accuse liberals of doing the very thing they themselves are guilty of. The only two explanations are: they are consciously lying out of malice, or else they are making some willfully ignorant and wildly unfounded assumptions because they can't bear the idea of admitting that liberals were actually right about something after all.