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To: Neeka who wrote (251452)	5/23/2008 7:41:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793917

But what I'd really like to see is someone that could explain this divide. Even if the dems don't want to hear it, a lot of Americans could benefit from an in depth explanation, and someone could at least try to or deliberately describe why conservatives think the way they think and do what they do. Just as there must be some liberal out there who could do the same. I was hoping Lieberman might try, but it is obvious that all the politicians and news pundits want to do is belittle and denigrate what their opponents are. Dennis Praeger tries every day. (I recommend his recent column, "How the Liberals Lost a Liberal") But it's not easy. The divide didn't happen by accident. The divide happened because liberals decided it was their moral duty to become deaf, dumb and blind to certain things that conservatives think are essential - like values and intentions. Liberals think it is their duty not to notice these things because noticing them involves the use of discrimination, and discrimination is bad. Or as Dennis puts it, the Left completely lost its moral bearings about the time of Vietnam. When a liberal says, as millions do every day, "Why shouldn't Iran have nukes? After all, Israel has them," what answer can you make? The true answer is out in the open, obvious - Israel doesn't intend to annihilate any other nation; its nukes are purely for defense. Iran not only intends to annihilate Israel, but two of its current and past presidents have said so out loud. (This is leaving the legalities of the NPT violations aside.) But the liberal won't hear it because liberals have become fixated on objects, which do not involve discrimination. To them, the nuke is what matters. To conservatives, it is the intention of the possessor that matters. They point out that despite our many policy differences with France, we have never worried about French nukes.