On Planet Liberal this man is the embodiment of white racism. On Planet Earth, he came into the courtroom much as you would expect a man who had not wanted to be in a lethal confrontation and did not spend his time licking his chops at the prospect of killing a black teenager.
On Planet Liberal this was supposed to be some inverse version of To Kill a Mockingbird, A Time to Kill and every other of the numerous entries in that genre. On Planet Earth, it's looking like a weak case with an incompetent and unethical prosecutor whose own team is unable to answer the question of who started the fight between Martin and Zimmerman.
But living on Planet Liberal requires believing twelve impossible things before breakfast.
To live on Planet Liberal, you have to believe that only white people can be racist, that going deep into debt is the only way to fix the economy and that freedom means forcing other people to do things for you.
To live on Planet Liberal you have to believe that sexual orientation is fixed permanently in an individual's genetic code and can never be altered, but that gender is a fluid social construct that can be swapped with a little mutilation and some hormone shots, or just with a change of outfit.
To live on Planet Liberal, you have to believe that America, Europe and Israel have no right to sovereignty over their territory, but that Saddam's Iraq and Ahmadinejad's Iran do.
To live on Planet Liberal, you have to believe that every breath you take helps raise planetary temperatures but that buying carbon credits is the only way to save earth.
To live on Planet Liberal you have to believe that despite Lee Harvey Oswald, the People's Temple, the Weathermen, the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Anarchist Bombings of 1919, the real threat to this country comes from right wingers.
To live on Planet Liberal you have to believe that wealth redistribution from the people to the government is social justice.
To live on Planet Liberal you have to believe that religion is bad because it's divisive and has to be taken on faith, but that left-wing politics are good because they are divisive and their utopia has to be taken on faith.
To live on Planet Liberal you have to believe that the only people who should have guns are those who work for the government and that this will protect the people.
To live on Planet Liberal you have to believe that teachers should be paid more than basketball players, without any regard to where the money would come from.
To live on Planet Liberal you have to believe that war is bad, but that terrorism is good.
To live on Planet Liberal you have to believe that the Constitution is outdated, but the decisions of the Warren Court, led by a racist from the 19th century, should be kept forever.
To live on Planet Liberal you have to believe that the people want you to implement all your ideas, but you have to lie about it to them because they're too dumb to know they want them implemented.
Sultan Knish
