A Response to Larry Elder from a "Misguided" Liberal

Larry Elder wrote about how liberals and conservatives view each other. Elder, obviously a conservative, summed up his stereotyping article with, "Bottom line: Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people." He provided a conversation between himself and a man at his local barbershop, which I'll elaborate on later.

I don't agree with Larry Elder, and I'm actually quite sick of all the political labels. We're in the midst of an absolutely historical election, and he's bashing liberals? To be quite frank, everyone needs to put their political comfort zones aside. I've heard, "Oh, well I've just never voted Democrat. I'm a Republican through and through," too many times. Vote for who will run our country best. I see no reason to create more division between liberals and convservatives when in the end, we're one country. We will never come to absolute agreement. We're human. That's not in our nature, but we do, or should, have the ability to set aside differences and do what is right for the United States of America.

Larry Elder's dialogued "They say, I say" conversation with the man in the barbershop really does make a mockery of liberals. The ideas of that one man are totally extreme; they're conspiracy theories. Just because one liberal believes something, doesn't mean every single liberal believes it. It isn't like all liberals, or conservatives for that matter, live in perfect harmony with each other. Elder's most mocking "They say" argument was in the very last line. By saying, "Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people," he completely stereotypes every single person who considers themselves a liberal. At age sixteen, I've already been labeled a liberal, and I don't think that every conservative person is bad. I would be getting into political arguments every other day with teachers. By saying that all liberals think that way, he's making all liberals look judgmental, but he really isn't making himself look all that wonderful either. He's calling liberals judgmental, and yet he's stereotyping all liberals into one big group of people who hate conservatives.