The shoe store specializes in hiking boots and Birkenstocks. The bar is a microbrewery. Homosexuality is entirely acceptable. Smoking is entirely not. He is right, of course.
Liberal hypocrisy is a very easy target.
But the liberals are at least saving these pastoral communities from the destructive powers of modern conservative ideology. Yes, it would be nice if one could find a wrench set rather than a kiln-fired pottery vase on Main Street. But downtowns used to have hardware, shoe and sporting goods shops. They were all rolled up in a carpet and unfurled into one Wal-Mart at the edge of town. Somehow this set of priorities irritates him.