I mostly agree with you in your sentiment. I too dont feel welcome among liberals even though I feel that I mostly identify with liberal values. It feels like in order to be liberal in Seattle you have to hit all these mandatory check boxes and if you miss even one you automatically get thought of as a dirty conservative and have values you dont believe in assigned to you. Like guns? Well too bad you cant be a liberal, you must hate women, gays, be against abortion and want everyone to convert to Christianity. Its like shit really? Cant I just like guns?
This is why virtue signaling pisses me off. All these judgemental pricks are out there with their hashtags and facebook filters, yet when it comes time to get off your ass and actually DO SOMETHING they are too busy drowning in Netflix and twitter drama. I have a shit-ton of anger right now, and there is a real part of me that wants to sit back and say "I told you mother fuckers, I fucking told you!" while I watch it all burn. But like that quote in the movie with the talking tree and squirrel, I care about the country because I'm one of the assholes who has to live in it. Life will go on. The fights will materialize. And those of us left that still give a shit will have to step up a bit more than expected if we want to leave the place better than we found it.It feels like in order to be liberal in Seattle you have to hit all these mandatory check boxes and if you miss even one you automatically get thought of as a dirty conservative and have values you dont believe in assigned to you.