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To: Poet who wrote (2261)	3/12/2002 11:43:34 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

You are coming close to saying that a liberal outlook is the product of education and exposure to critical thinking techniques. I don't think it's possible for people who have a brain and know how to use it and who have been exposed to a variety of ideas and people and places to be closed-minded or intolerant. Or jingoistic. Those are not descriptive of a "liberal outlook," which is receptive to new ideas and collaborative. You don't find people with a liberal outlook who are not accepting of Arabs or gays or academics in their midst or who dismiss peoples and traditions and contributions from other parts of the world. Those liberal attitudes inform liberal political positions. They even comprise certain liberal political positions. Other issues on the liberal/conservative continuum have little or nothing to do with that liberal outlook. People can have a liberal outlook and vary greatly on tax policies, the environment, affirmative action, government regulation, trade, etc. So I think that the "liberal outlook" that comes with academic training and cosmopolitan living predisposes people to certain liberal political positions, which pushes the average somewhat to the left, but doesn't command adherence to the rest of the liberal platform or reject the rest of the conservative platform. Karen