Well, I swan! The man is making sense. ( and a personality is peeking through... :)

If you are willing to fill the blank with the name of almost any group, including 'conservatives', I will agree with you. To coin a phrase, power corrupts.

"And at the risk of sounding "paranoid", I have a disconcerting feeling that there are indeed a few influencial "liberals" out there who do have an agenda which is not nearly as altruistic as the majority of their followers; it involves power; lots of it - polarized and incontrovertable - in the hands of a relatively small ruling elite in which of course they expect to be included. Such a system has never boded well for peace or justice in any civilization, according to any history that I'm aware of.

Ebbie