What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.
It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.
Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.
What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.
As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend your taxes, it always seems to go to some guy in a leather chair downtown you never heard of.
[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of generosity among the advocates of governmentally-required "compassion".
[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.
Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
I'm not going to tell [Vladimir] Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do?
I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
. . . no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away. . . The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.