ABSTRACT
The US has recently seen the publication of a number of books with titles like How to Talk to a Liberal – If You Must (Coulter 2004), Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War on Christianity (Limbaugh 2003), and even Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed (DeBrecht and Hummel 2005) (the publisher calls it ‘the book conservative parents have been seeking’1). Some of these books accuse ‘liberals’ (whoever they are, exactly) of being stupid, amoral and unpatriotic. Some even suggest America is in the grip of a ‘liberal’ conspiracy to undermine Christianity and the American Way and turn your children gay.
