I'm a liberal, but liberals don't like me!

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That too. But I really do notice liberals have a particular contempt for social clumsiness....And some of them really dislike aspies for that precise reason.

Yeah, eh? I mean, you can suck management's backside, get a job on Wallstreet, or work for countless country club conservative financed institutes to get a lucrative, socially ladder climbing, lifestyle. Or you can satisfy the demand for "liberalism".

I'm pretty certain a lot of the interactions with socially climbing "liberals" people are whining about here are just interactions with socially liberal, fiscally conservative yuppies. I know various people on the left, indeed many people well to the left of me, including a professional activist who relies on their spouse's income for sustenance as well as people who work for left-leaning social advocacy organizations. None of them fit the picture painted in this post.

Actually, most of the people I'm talking about are anything but yuppies! Quite a few of em are hipsters, politicos, greens, artistes, self-professing generic non-conformists, and those social "activist" types you speak of. They favor social welfare oriented economic policies while staunchly promoting the sexual free market(AKA "free love" or "sex positivism").

Most people of any political ideology make me retch. I don't see why you'd even *want* these people to like you, at least only on the basis of similar political beliefs. I mean, abstractly I understand the desire to fit in and have a social community, but seriously, most people are just mind-numbingly bad in their formulation of their political ideals. I mean, I don't want to be liked by the stupid conservatives, the stupid libertarians, or the stupid liberals, and that's going to comprise the majority of nearly any political ideology.

But who's to say those clinics and cheapy policies would still exist? And did they cover as many people as government programs do?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Long ago, clinics didn't do a good job of saving lives.

I know I'd much rather have the slings and arrows of the ideologues than their praise, I get nervous when people I know to be intellectually straight-jacketed start agreeing with me.

As to the OP's problem, I don't think anyone likes liberals, even other liberals...

Well I don't necessarily get along with all leftish-leaning people. I'm mainly thinking of the stereotypical artsy/bohemian hippy types. I have nothing against them personally, but I couldn't really live with one. I just can't deal with their messiness, clutter, and noise. I need a clean and peaceful space to retreat to.

I notice on those personality tests liberals supposedly score higher on "openness" while conservatives score higher on "conscientiousness". I score very high on both categories.

I've long ago given up trying to disavow myself of ideological labels. If people want to label me I have no choice but to be a stinking "liberal". However, just because I arrived at many of the same conclusions as a certain politically identified group doesn't mean my opinions were not arrived at through independent thought.

How do you get along with union workers?

Tolerance does not mean "no disagreement", it just means willingness to put up with things one does not approve of without bigotry- which is the exact opposite of what you say

How do you get along with Black Bloc-ers?

You mean gruff, uncultured, beer guzzling, knuckle dragging proles (as Ruveyn would say). J/K.

Groan...

The far left and I don't usually get along. The world is violent and I approve of proportionate violence in return. But the far right is made up of no thought trogs. I'm embarrassed for them and just try to bite my tongue. They don't really rate the time it takes to engage them.