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To: bentway who wrote (603957)	3/16/2011 10:11:32 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1574683

Bboth of you stay because deep inside you know you couldn't find anyplace better. ---------------------------------------------- Its ironic that a liberal would compare conservatives to the Loyalists .... just think if the Loyalists had prevailed, we'd be just like Canada, which you all say you like better than the US.

To: bentway who wrote (603957)	3/16/2011 10:59:38 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1574683

I stay to defeat the extreme right wingnuts and force America into being the kind of country the Founders dreamed of. Definitely. Let's face it, all these right wingnuts would have been LOYALISTS, which is what the conservatives WERE at the time Yes and they are as cheeky and annoying now as they were back then.

To: bentway who wrote (603957)	3/16/2011 11:38:14 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1574683

As far as the revolutionaries/Patriots They supported liberty, where against attempts to expand government control, esp. from distant higher level governments rather than the colony/state and local level, they protested and opposed taxes, they supported the right to keep and bear arms (and did so quite actively). Doesn't seem much like the modern liberal,Democrat, and/or progressive. They thought resistance to the Crown—the legitimate government—was morally wrong. That seems like a lot of the big government liberals here, at least if the Democrats are in power. Neither the loyalists/tories nor the revolutionaries/patriots would have supported the level of taxes and regulation we have now, so I suppose both sides should be considered libertarian... You can draw all sorts of parallels from either side of a conflict over 230 years ago, to all sorts of groups today, but the difference are going to be far larger than the similarities in most cases.