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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: pompsander who wrote (754795)	11/21/2006 5:40:57 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) of 769667

Thanks, pomp.... (It is getting so that --- unless people take the simple expedient of defining their terms first --- you don't really have any idea what the heck they are talking about any more when they say words like 'liberal' or 'conservative'.) Labels may not be perfect (& I'm no huge fan of labels anyway...) but when someone says they are a 'fiscal conservative', or a 'religious conservative' (or both or neither), you at least have some idea what they are talking about still. Same goes with someone who says they favor Libertarian solutions (you then know they are not likely to be out working for a bigger, stronger, more intrusive government). On the other side, you almost NEVER hear someone come right out and say they 'favor Authoritarian solutions' any more --- for fear of sounding Fascist or Monarchist, I guess.... People now-a-days nearly always express Authoritarian impulses by talking in some kind of a code... you have to 'read between the lines' to see it. But, it's still pretty easy to see: when people's knee-jerk prescription to most any big or small problem is to propose a bigger, stronger, more intrusive/restrictive/prohibitionist King/Executive/'Fearless Leader' as a solution to the problem, or to 'make the trains run on time' --- then the Authoritarian impulse is fairly easy to discern.

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