“The time has come” the walrus said, “to speak of many things.  Of ships ’n seas ’n sealing wax, of cabbages ’n Kings.”  L. Carroll

Back in those Once upon a time daze of my childhood, I recall that Greenup County, Ky, was a shoo-in for Democrats…Greenup County Republicans were extremely rare ’n deeply closeted…I’ve heard it said that if for some inexplicable reason,you happened to need a Republican, you’d have to import them from Lewis County…at that time Greenup Countians were deeply distrustful of Lewis Countians ‘cuz Republicans down there could wander around freely with no restraints whatsoever just like they wuz ordinary people….

I got a good buddy back there in Greenup County that wudn’t even consider living anywhere else ’n he’s still what you’d call an Oldtime Democrat or what folks back in the day referred to as a ‘Yellow Dog Democrat’….(meanin’ they’d pull that rooster for the Democrat no matter if the party had run a yellow dog on the ticket)…

I know another good ol boy back there that ever’body really liked (still do) but even his fam’ly wudn’t vote for him when he ran as a Republican…

Now, as you might imagine, ever’ now ’n then I find m’self in a prolonged conversation with some of the stubbornest ’n most cussed people I know (progressive liberal Democrats, ever' one) ’n when they run out of rational arguments, tend to wind things up by stating emphatically that they’re ‘Liberal’ as if that wuz the be-all ’n end-all to durn near ever'thing….now, I find that almost as frustrating as the statement, “Well, let’s just agree to disagree.”…as if that wuz some kind of solution…

Mostly, I just ascribe that kind of behavior to blind fanaticism ’n Gawd knows that conservatives have their own dyed in the wool fanatics that can’t be bothered to listen to reason just the same as those Yellow Dog Democrats…’n while it’s true that you can’t have much of a sandwich without two pieces of bread, you can’t have one at all without the filling in the center….

“You cannot win!

 You cannot break even!

 You cannot get out of the game!” Anon...