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To: jbe who wrote (46589)	7/23/1999 11:48:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

1. Business interests are neither liberal nor conservative. Money has no ideology. 2. Nowhere do you answer the comment that all the sources quoted are from the generally recognized as liberal "side" and none from the grac side are quoted. 3. Almost all Time and Newsweek stories now carry bylines. 4. I disagree that the terms liberal and conservative "tend to dissolve on careful analysis." I do agree that, as with all words, their meanings evolve, so that much that was once liberal (stuff I believed in an idealistic youth and still believe as a more cynical adult) is now conservative, and as with all descriptors of human thought/emotion they are fuzzy around the edges and even sometimes overlap, but that does not deprive them of usefulness as descriptors or make the terms dissolve. After all, love and hate, it has been often said, accurately, tend at the edges to morph into each other, but I think no one would claim that the words are meaningless or that they are synonymous. It is both reasonable and useful to seek some way to categorize political ideas; our brains are not able to deal with every issue and idea separately and in isolation without trying to find some common thread or pattern, however imperfect.