1. As scientific theories, you place equal importance on evolution and gravity.
2. Even the thought of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly makes you sick.
3. Sarah Palin’s voice hits you like fingernails on a chalkboard.
4. You are able to form your own opinion without the influence of television.
5. You are colorblind when it comes to race or national origin.
6. You are serious about recycling.
7. You believe a woman has the right to make her own medical decisions without government intrusion.
8. You believe education and health care should be subsidized for the common good.
9. You believe government is “of the people, for the people and by the people” and not just for corporations.
10. You believe in “Liberty and Justice FOR ALL”.
11. You believe in the separation of church and state.
12. You believe in, and have even read a book or two about science.
13. You believe people are more important than corporations.
14. You believe public education and paying teachers competitive wages are good things.
15. You believe that affordable healthcare is a basic right – not a privilege (for the privileged).
16. You believe that the Bible and the Constitution are not interchangeable.
17. You believe that the privileges of the few should not impose on the rights of the many.
18. You can find Iraq on a map while understanding that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
19. You can tell the difference between profit and God.
20. You care about the environment.
21. You consider all the facts on issues instead of calling your grandparents and asking them what to think.
22. You do not believe corporations are people too, friend.
23. You do not believe in the concept of “acceptable casualties”.
24. You don’t believe that being a woman is a “pre-existing condition”.
25. You ever inhaled, exhaled and inhaled again.
26. You get a kick out of NRA Spokesman Charlton Heston in the Ten Commandments.
27. You give to charity because you care, not because it is a tax write-off.
28. You have gay friends and you respect them.
29. You have gay friends you acknowledge in public.
30. You have left a restaurant because Fox News was on the television.
31. You know how to read a map and understand there is a world outside our borders.
32. You know the difference between adhering to the Ten Commandments and merely preaching them when convenient.
33. You know the difference between fascism and communism.
34. You know what being socialist actually means.
35. You learn from your mistakes.
36. You like books, not viewing them as merely being kindling.
37. You realize our Founding Fathers were deist, not Christian.
38. You prefer to breathe non-cancer-causing air and drink non-toxic water.
39. You rarely make spelling errors.
40. You rarely use the words “Tea Party” and “Logic” in the same sentence unless explaining they lack the latter.
41. You read food labels.
42. You registered Republican so you could vote for their weakest candidate in their primaries.
43. You remember that Reagan increased taxes on the rich.
44. You remember that Reagan strongly believed in the separation of church and state.
45. You support the arts.
46. You support the middle class.
47. You take the time to read this.
48. You think that sexual relations between two consenting adults is their personal and private business.
49. You try to live up to the ideals Jesus taught such as brotherly love, taking care of the sick, the elderly, the poor.
50. You understand that “trickle-down economics” is like a “pissing contest” in that nobody ever wins – everyone just ends up getting wet.
by Jeff Stevens
