I have an up-close-and-personal relationship with a couple of loony-left liberal nutjobs, but Bill's definition would totally exclude both of them.
One is my sister who has an MA in Psychology, works as an elementary school teacher, has never smoked weed in her life, drives a late model hybred made by Toyota. Her husband is a retired Captain with the US Navy, a former Navy jet jock with a cushy job with one of our defense contractors. She is intelligent, thoughtful, even wise--but she has swallowed the NEA line of bullsh!t hook, line, and sinker. We have agreed never to discuss politics on account of her always being so damn wrong.
The other is my very own bride--a remarkably acccomplished woman with a BSN and a huge heart. She smoked her share of weed in her youth (and that may have negatively impacted her ability to think rationally) but hasn't smoked anything in years and years. She has always held down a well-paying job (for many years as head of her own company), and she has always been a left wing loon. She drives a late model Honda (paid-for) and lives with me in one of our 4 properties (all paid for).
She lives her ideals and has started a non-profit organization to support a group of orphans in Bangladesh--where she will spend the month of March verifying that the collected funds are being properly spent on the orphans.
She is as wacky a lefty as it is possible to be, and as I have done with my sister, she and I have agreed not to ever discuss politics on account of her ALWAYS being so damn wrong. She consistently rejects the ideals of logic and reason and always prefers to go with how something feels .
So, I guess my point is that while many of the left-wing-loons are lice-ridden losers, some are just as accomplished as the rest of us. The only problems they may have are a blindness to reality, an inability to rationally consider a logical argument, and a belief that unicorns fart rainbows and hundred dollar bills.
Offered as food for thought by Crusader who has many years living with a certifiable left-wing loon.