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To: FaultLine who wrote (37975)	8/15/2002 3:00:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

>>When you look at the posts here, is becomes obvious that those of a "Liberal" persuasion think things are bad and may get worse. Their glass is half-empty. They are pessimists. Those of us on the "Right" tend to think that things are good and are going to get better. Our glasses are half-full. We are optimists. Odd, all my life I'm been convinced of exactly the opposite. So have I, but I think it is where you aim your gaze. LB is looking at the triumph of democracy and free market systems, and is saying things are getting better. Traditionally, the focus was on estimates of human nature, which Liberals felt was improvable under various schemes, while Conservatives felt it was pretty well fixed and unchangeable, and not too nice either. Conservative schemes have enlightened self-interest as their highest goal for human nature. Radical schemes depend on selfless transformations of human nature, e.g. "the new Soviet man". Liberal schemes fall somewhere in between.