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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (141888)1/18/2002 5:02:46 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (4) of 1585128
 
"also liberals where behind things like the PC movement, strict sexual harrasment laws, and a greater amount of regulation in general. "

And conservatives are behind laws regulating personal behavior like the sodomy laws here in Texas, the laws against oral sex in Virginia, the cohabitation laws in North Carolina, laws regulating when and where alcohol is sold and other social engineering laws. Conservatives and liberals both like to social engineer, they just have different areas of interest. Liberals like to drape themselves in the flag of personal liberty, conservatives in the flag of morality. But both like to outlaw the things they don't approve of...

Where you plot the various groups is not the big point, the point is that a one dimensional, left/right mapping leaves out a lot and distorts the discussion. It lets people like my little buddy David Ray paint everyone he doesn't agree with as a "liberal" (as he did you once), and start foaming at the mouth about Clinton.

The whole liberal/conservative pigeonholing that is popular in this country is nuts. It doesn't actually describe anything of importance. You probably label tejek both and me as liberals, but we are on opposite sides on many issues. That liberal/conservative brush is just way too broad.
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