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My theory is testable. Get a Liberal to describe a Conservative. When you tell him you are a Conservative, and that you don’t believe the things he imagines you do, and tell him what Conservatives actually believe, he will: 1) call you a liar, 2) say that you aren’t a real Conservative or 3) be blown away, achieve enlightenment, and register as a Republican.
It seems to me that it is you that is doing exactly what you accuse the liberals of doing, with your sweeping generalizations, name-calling, expressions of persecution, and intimations that liberals are not patriotic or sane. But I will take you up on your challenge by describing a conservative.
Generally, a conservative is someone who embraces traditional values and promotes the status quo, whereas as liberal challenges those values and promotes appropriate change.
I'm proudly a conservative. I enjoy Fox television and read William Buckley's National Review. As a matter of personal conscience and preference, I don't smoke, drink, gamble, or stray from my family obligations. I work hard, avoid debt, and like children and small animals. I'm suspicious of concentrations of power in the government and corporations. In domestic policy, I believe in balanced budgets and fiscal prudence. We go to church each Sunday, and we support local charities. The first president I voted for was Ronald Reagan.
I'm also proudly a liberal. I get most of my news from NPR radio and the New York Times. I'm a first amendment absolutist and I'm suspicious of intrusions of the clergy into public policy. I favor gay rights, a generous immigrantion policy, and the expansion of civil rights for the least among us. I don't have a beef with affirmative action, the public school system, or with the tax code. In foreign policy, I'm opposed to foreign entanglements, imperial dreams, and gunboat diplomacy, believing that if you want to sell Jesus or buy oil overseas, you should do so, but on your dime and without wrapping yourself in the American flag. I'm currently a registered Democrat, and, yes, I despise Bush and his Values Party.
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Such terms as liberal and conservative are meaningless ways to self-characterize or to pejoratively characterize. Life in all of its diversity and dynamism expects more from us than to be wedded to such simplistic labels.
My theory is testable. Get a Liberal to describe a Conservative. When you tell him you are a Conservative, and that you don’t believe the things he imagines you do, and tell him what Conservatives actually believe, he will: 1) call you a liar, 2) say that you aren’t a real Conservative or 3) be blown away, achieve enlightenment, and register as a Republican.
It seems to me that it is you that is doing exactly what you accuse the liberals of doing, with your sweeping generalizations, name-calling, expressions of persecution, and intimations that liberals are not patriotic or sane. But I will take you up on your challenge by describing a conservative.
Generally, a conservative is someone who embraces traditional values and promotes the status quo, whereas as liberal challenges those values and promotes appropriate change.
I'm proudly a conservative. I enjoy Fox television and read William Buckley's National Review. As a matter of personal conscience and preference, I don't smoke, drink, gamble, or stray from my family obligations. I work hard, avoid debt, and like children and small animals. I'm suspicious of concentrations of power in the government and corporations. In domestic policy, I believe in balanced budgets and fiscal prudence. We go to church each Sunday, and we support local charities. The first president I voted for was Ronald Reagan.
I'm also proudly a liberal. I get most of my news from NPR radio and the New York Times. I'm a first amendment absolutist and I'm suspicious of intrusions of the clergy into public policy. I favor gay rights, a generous immigrantion policy, and the expansion of civil rights for the least among us. I don't have a beef with affirmative action, the public school system, or with the tax code. In foreign policy, I'm opposed to foreign entanglements, imperial dreams, and gunboat diplomacy, believing that if you want to sell Jesus or buy oil overseas, you should do so, but on your dime and without wrapping yourself in the American flag. I'm currently a registered Democrat, and, yes, I despise Bush and his Values Party.
http://mymallandnews.bizland.com/index078.html
Such terms as liberal and conservative are meaningless ways to self-characterize or to pejoratively characterize. Life in all of its diversity and dynamism expects more from us than to be wedded to such simplistic labels.
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