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To: carranza2 who wrote (42033)	10/3/2000 5:03:46 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

No one that I know intends to force you to join anything. It is, indeed, wildly optimistic to think that without families, schools, and other mediating institutions, a child can grow into a civilized adult, much less someone with a sense of responsibility and integrity. It is precisely the disintegration of family and community life that has made the inner city more ridden with social pathologies than it was in the '50s, a time of greater racial discrimination. Anyway, government policy impacts on all of these things, and therefore must be sensitive to that impact. It is not that these things cannot exist without government, it is that government inevitably interacts with them........

To: carranza2 who wrote (42033)	10/3/2000 5:25:35 PM
From: kvkkc1	Respond to of 769670

Your last diatribe is the extremist view. Nobody on this thread tries to persuade anybody to join their church or club. Your last post sounds like James Carville, although you have professed to support the Republicans as a choice between the lesser of two evils. The 2 million people populating our penal system should point to the obvious conclusion that the population is incapable of self-regulating in the utopia you see as an optimist. Some on the thread have stronger conservative views than others, but for the most part we believe in the same things.knc

To: carranza2 who wrote (42033)	10/3/2000 6:06:23 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The extremists that have hijacked the Republican Party deep in their hearts want to tell you what club to join, what church to attend, when and how to screw, and pray, reverently and piously, of course, for laws which will allow them to punish those unwilling to accept their standards. Our party is greater than this. Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush and Dole were all moderates. Who hijacked the party? It seems to me your statement is a bit overbroad. There's always an extreme end in any large group. And to tell you the truth, I'll take our "extremists" over theirs (Dems) any day of the week.