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To: robnhood who wrote (8450)	2/26/1998 4:46:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 20981

>>Duncan , What does liberalism and faith type argument have to do with each other? That's easy. Virtually every tenet of U.S. liberalism (which is actually socialism everywhere else in the world) has been shown by time to be a failure, yet there are still many liberals. They are sustained by faith, not factual analysis. Liberal politicians are somewhat different. Most politicians who are liberals are liberals only because that offers an easy path to power, personal gain as you say. It's an easy path and de Toqueville warned against it. Liberal politicians claim compassion as theirs, yet they are totally self-serving: they use the force of government to exact money from others to pay for their "compassion" and then rely on that compassion to buy them votes at election time - so their compassion is actually their boon. They encourage the recipients of public largess to become dependents, all the better for harvesting votes. All in all, that's a very weird definition of compassion. If you are a Kennedy you do all the above while verbally attacking "the rich" and yet shielding you own vast wealth in trusts. And despite the attack on the rich, in practice the tax and spend policies of the liberals soak the middle class, because that's where the money is. Every "great" liberal social program of the 1960's has been a failure and now people are scrutinizing even what was once the most popular liberal program of the New Deal. Polls show that 60% U.S. citizens want Social Security privatized in some way because it is such a bad deal. That number will rise in the future. When fact trumps faith, libs lose.