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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (411973)	9/2/2008 11:03:53 PM
From: SilentZ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571939

>Count all of the first world nations out there that is more conservative than America. There aren't any. >Then count all of the first world nations out there that is more liberal than America. All of them. But, that isn't my point. We know that America, as a whole, at least in terms of government policy, is more conservative than say, Europe. The point is that on a scale of what defines Americans as liberal vs. conservative within our own country, even if since Republicans have managed to negatively brand the word "liberal" so that people self-describe as "conservative," people tend to support more liberal policies if you directly ask them without labels. They are not very pro-war, they support universal health insurance, they support taxing them if their tax money actually pays for real benefits, they are for gay rigts, they are more for abortion than they are against... -Z