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To: zonkie who wrote (57036)	2/1/2006 3:11:26 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362425

I find little of what the modern Republican party does as being "conservative". They certainly do not uphold free market principals, as their skewing of energy markets via the huge military support for the oil trade has demonstrated very clearly. That's about as anti-free market as you can get, putting a nation's military to the task of protecting a commodity. Like that doesn't put competitive energy technologies at a free market disadvantage? Also, the Republicans support for government intrusion into personal behavior leaves me little reason to believe they are conservative in the traditional sense. I would say cultist is a better characterization of this group. They have a cultist outlook on the world, a groupthink of the way things should be and fight very hard to impose that view on others. I think any true conservative in 2006 would be much better served by the Libertarian party than the statist and status-quo defending Republican party. I find myself more and more in agreement with the Libertarian POV, I guess as a reaction to the Republican Revolution of 1994 that has fallen flat on its face. If you want government to play an activist domestic role vote Democratic. If you want government to play an internationalist role that defends the status-quo economics and tries to impose moral values on people, vote Republican. If you really want to get back to the free market principals this country was founded on vote Libertarian. I'm certainly no Laizze Faire kind of person. I think government has and can do a lot of good things for society. I see the Republican version of government as being the worst though, meddling for private intersts that hurts the general populace. That is not what government should stand for. We would all be better off with either true liberals pushing a positive progressive social agenda or true conseratives (Libertarians) pushing free market agena, because what we have now is just muck and mud and is not doing any of us any good.