Arch Centrist Attacks!

Ok so most (all) of my rants, diatribes and frothing screeds are aimed at social conservatism and the politics and pundits who champion it. This is due to two very good reasons:

1. It just infuriates me no end.
2. The Liberals in this country have no central mythology to unite them and have become the political equivalent of Apple computers; propped up by their conservative rivals as a scrawny bulwark against a political monopoly.

So my search for truth - or at least the amount of truth I can handle at any given moment - frequently brands me as an arch liberal in some circles and an arch conservative in others (the others being mainly school). Alright, enough pussyfooting around: My Sociology teacher and textbook and blatant pinko commies and it is really irritating. Here's a blurb from my "textbook."

"In Sum
From the perspective of conflict theory, the small penalties imposed for crimes committed by the powerful are typical of a legal system that has been designed by the elite (capitalists) to control workers, to keep themselves in power, and, ultimately, to stabilize the social order. From this perspective, law enforcement is a cultural device through which the capitalist class carries out self-protective and repressive policies."

It sounds like something straight out the communist manifesto and I am sitting here, wired and cranky at a local Starbucks trying to memorize it. Gahhhh!!!!!!