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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (91863)	12/22/2004 10:15:47 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793778

For the most part, the current conservative movement has been taken over by intolerant people who want to maintain the status quo (of maybe 100 years ago)... ...Similarly, the liberal movement was hijacked in the 60's by extreme elements. Both elements you list exist, as well as other extreme groups, but I don't think either element has taken over. I know conservatives better than liberals so I'll let someone else speak for the liberals but very few conservatives want things to be much like what they where 100 years ago. Some want it like the 1950s (but without segregation and Jim Crow, and with the economic growth and technological change that has occurred since then). The bottom line however is that Bill Clinton and George W Bush are pretty good proxies for the two opposing views. As "true liberal" and a "true conservative", or as the radicals that you talk about? Tim