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To: LindyBill who wrote (28851)	2/10/2004 10:15:17 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 794558

They include, but are not limited to, a near-universal shared sense that liberal political positions on social issues like gun control, homosexuality, abortion, and religion are the default, while more conservative positions are "conservative positions." I don't suppose that I ought to beat this horse any longer, but I hope the absurdity of this is clear to all who read it. Why does anyone need to assume that there is a "liberal position" and a "conservative position" on each of these issues? What happened to the idea of a moderate, or centrist, position, with a variety of gradually more polarized positions extending in both directions? What I see here is that extreme liberals are insisting that a moderate position is conservative, while extreme conservatives call the same position liberal. Both are convinced that there is some sort of bias against them. Opinion curves are not bipolar. They are more inclined toward the bell-shaped curve, although it is never possible to determine exactly where the center lies. What we see happening now s that the loudmouths on both ends of te curve refusing to acknowledge the existence of a center. Who determines what position, on any of these issues, is "liberal", "conservative", or "centrist/moderate"?