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To: neolib who wrote (220365)	2/22/2005 8:40:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588356

To the extent that politically conservative does imply resistance to change, it is resistance to change in regards to traditions that have a long and deep history in a particularly society. Exactly. Which is why I say from Stalin on. Stalin, or even Brezhnev were not defending traditions that had a long and deep history in Russian history, unless you mean the tradition of authoritarian rule. A few decades of a system, even a totalitarian system, being imposed on a nation doesn't amount to a long and deep connection with societies history. Pol Pot would need a quadrant all to himself I'm afraid. I'm not so sure about that but he would be way out in the corner. Old liberals also become "conservative" in the "fixed in their ways" sense. Agreed. There is a difference between conservative ideology and being "fixed in your ways". Tax cuts and SS "reform" are of course issues which have many pros and cons, so I would not necessarily attach a liberal or conservative label to views on that. In the modern American political use of the term conservative both are sort of conservative ideas. In the "stuck in your ways sense", neither are. In the more general political definition of the term your right neither is particularly conservative or liberal. Tim