if you say so

I had initially left this as a comment over at Sebastian’s place (concerning the Dan Cooper situation), but he emailed me this morning and requested I make a full-fledged weblog post out of it. So mote it be (with a few additions, since I get to re-write-in-retrospect).
Why do liberals/democrats/”progressives” believe I must support someone or something I disagree with? After all, if that is such a bad thing, why do liberals/democrats/”progressives” do the same exact thing…:
Liberals boycott Fox.
Liberals boycott “Left Behind”.
Liberals boycott South Dakota tourist spots.
Liberals boycott MSNBC.
Liberals just randomly boycott.
Liberals boycott “Crash” (huh?).
Liberals boycott the Salvation Army.
Liberals boycott Exxon/Mobil.
And, best of all, liberals boycott everything! (The website, Boycott This!, describes itself as “a publicly compiled registry of leftist/progressive boycotts”.)
Nowhere have we told Mr. Cooper he cannot support whomever he wants. Nowhere have we infringed Mr. Coopers rights to free speech (and nowhere near as much as Senator Barack Hussein Obama wants to infringe our Second Amendment rights).
Mr. Cooper freely chose to take a stance contrary to probably the majority of his customer base, and now he is dealing with the consequences… and every action has consequences.
…You know, that has to be one of the biggest sticking points with liberals I encounter online – the complete and utter lack of understanding of how consequences and personal responsibility work. I guess that explains why they are so very interested in nanny-state “ideals”…