The liberal paradigm divides the American body politic into sheep, wolves, and would-be shepherds. The shepherds must defeat the efforts of the wolves. In your opinion, to which group do YOU belong?

I don't belong to any of the inane definitions you have given here. I do, however know where YOU belong.

Honestly, I'm probably closer to a sheep than anything else. I have a very strong ideology and personal morality, but I'm also apathetic. So, I couldn't be a shepherd, because I really don't care enough to put work into a system that produces no results, but I also don't think that I would feel right preying on others. So, I guess that makes me a sheep.
Of course, this is assuming that what you said is the reality, and I don't think it is.

I don't know that that paradigm is particularly liberal. It's a useful simplification of roles for purposes of conversation though. Honestly each of us are sheep/shepherd/wolf depending on the situation. Ideally we socialize the wolf out of people but it's not perfect.
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Thing about politics is that with these three definitions we are almost all sheep by process of elimination. Even if you research your political positions with the utmost care and vote accordingly you still aren't for practical purposes defeating wolves or being a wolf yourself.
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Come to think of it, who ARE the wolves in this scenario? Rabid, slavering partisans? Circling, growling vested interests? Mangy talk show hosts? Whining politicians?

I didn't know there was a liberal paradigm. Who set the standards for it? The situation you set up comes from the Bible with the shepherd, the wolf in sheep's clothing, and the hireling. Hirelings do the work but don't care about anybody but themselves.

lol- I think we'd all like to think of ourselves as the shepherd, no?

Well I'm definitely not a sheep. I'm definitely not a wolf. However, I don't try to tell people what the right way to do things is either. I may debate them or their reasoning, but people are going to do things I don't agree with anyway. So, personally, I don't think I fit into any of these groups. +3

I'm the observer anticipating the whole thing falling down.

You left out the sheepdogs. I'm one of them, and our job is to protect the sheeple.

The group that doesn't buy your BS straw-man assertions...;-D...
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