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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sedohr Nod who wrote (103153)	12/6/2000 12:32:53 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yep. In some cases, it is primarily ethnic, in others primarily geographical, but it ensures a wide gene pool, militating against the dangers of endogamy (another new word), such as the increased incidence of undesirable recessive traits. Funnily, political tendencies are independent of such considerations, even metaphorically. I am sure that Futurist imagines that only by living in a world without dissenting voices could one be conservative. On the contrary. I started out working on the McGovern campaign, and have read many radical and liberal authors in my time, like Staunton Lynd, Noam Chomsky, Herbert Marcuse, and Karl Marx, or Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., J. Kenneth Galbraith, David Halberstam, and John Rawls. I still subscribe to The New Republic and The New York Review of Books. Where I came from, the dissenting voices were Milton Friedman, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, William F. Buckley, and Russell Kirk. Exposure to a variety of viewpoints led me to conservatism.......