itwasnotme: fair point. No offense was intended and I apologize if I gave any to anyone.
(Aside: I had in mind when writing that comment two things: first something I read to the effect that out of “liberty, equality, fraternity” Orwell valued the latter two and would compromise on the first; and second, the Phil Ochs song “Love me I’m a liberal”, which characterizes US liberals as not doing the marching, demonstrating, picketing you mention, but Ochs’ view was perhaps a bit jaundiced. BTW, I’m in the UK, and (like Ochs) most definitely not to the right of liberals here or in the US)