Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mc who wrote (99)	9/2/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: HighTech	Respond to of 6418

That's the classic definition of liberal, which in this country used to be called Republicans. Somehow Democrats morphed into "liberal", which is nothing close to that definition in reality. HiTech

To: mc who wrote (99)	9/2/1999 2:31:00 PM
From: Null Dog Ago	Respond to of 6418

That response is a tad too literal given the context of this forum. Liberal does mean that by a dictionary definition. But then gay also means happy and fag can be used as a shortened term for fatigue or a cigarette butt, despite having become vulgar terms for a homosexual. NOT that I'm criticizing you or anything, or singling out the homosexual community =P

To: mc who wrote (99)	9/2/1999 2:38:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 6418

Historically, the continuum between Right and Left was from traditional society (the Ancien Regime), with monarchs, inherited social classes, and a heavy dose of clericalism, to "social democracy", which was democratic, classless, and secular. Communism and anarchism represented the most radical conceptions of "social democracy". So- called bourgeois democracy, otherwise known as classical liberalism, was Leftist in respect of the Ancien Regime, but Rightist relative to out and out socialists and beyond. Now, conservatives are more or less old- fashioned liberals, and "liberals" are (mild) social democrats. The economic divide has to do with a respect for property rights, including the amassing of wealth and inheritance,on the one hand; and the attempt to narrow income gaps and attack inherited wealth through politics, on the other....