Bodies politic

[cjsmith]

There's a stereotype that you can't really be a good little conservative if you're not able-bodied. I don't really know how true it is. I've never much tried to be a good little conservative.

It's obvious, on the other hand, that you can't be a good little liberal if you're not able-bodied. Fortunately, I don't particularly care to be a good little liberal either.

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That may just be because if they're not smug, they don't come across as "athletic."

Maybe, although I've also now come up with a non-smug athlete: an ex-coworker who runs ultramarathons. He too is low-key about it, but nobody will ever mistake him for someone who doesn't use his body. :-)

I tend to think of the relevant axis as "conservative/radical" (i.e., the distinction between wanting to preserve the dominant social organization, and wanting to revolutionize it)

*nod* Yeah, ok, I can see that. Along that axis, US Democrats and Republicans are pretty much in the same boat, just trying to row in different directions.