"I call myself a liberal because as I see the defn is someone that uses both sides of their brain to think and decide not just goose-step with a ..."
That would make sense if there weren't a giant ideological chasm in the GOP. A rift eagerly exploited by Democrats who suffer no such proclivity for independent thought. How many times have non democrats asked in frustration, "isn't there a single honest dissenting democrat?" on so many issues. Smuggling guns, executive orders, keeping your doctor? Crickets crickets crickets.
Sure it is inescapable, the criminal killed in St Louis, while tragic, left the officer no alternative. Mike and others routinely expose police abuse but that's not what happened in St Louis. Without police misconduct, what can be aledged of racism? There is the big lie (remember that phrase), aledge it without merit enough until it's perceived as fact. How many times do they think they can run this tired play on us.
Goose step is indeed a powerful metaphor, but when loomix and mike vehemently disagree with Ron Paul, and others like Steve and ww and me lean heavily that way, there is no goose stepping. The scourge of Kansas won the governorship when all the Dems lined up behind her when establishment pubs ran a candidate and conservatives ran another. The only goose stepping was done by decent old school Dems when they voted for a commie like Sebielus.