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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (19124)	5/16/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Chaz, Since Shirley Temple Black, congresswoman of California and onetime movie star, was a far right conservative and big business tool, I would think she would have more in common with you than Dan, James. Don't you think? Although Dan keeps asking for the title. You'll have to ask Dan why he seeks the title. I'll have to admit that his reasons are a bit obscure to me as well. Perhaps it has something to do with the Good Ship Lollypop. <VBG> Now this may seem like an oddly bigoted, twisted, ad hominem attack. In fact it is, rather preposterously so. I thought you ought to try one on yourself, is all. I'm not offended by personal attacks. In fact I enjoy clever ones, especially those that can be interpreted on several levels. I'm quite capable of popping my own balloon on occasion. I presume that here you refer to the rather conservative party running Germany some 60 years ago. Not really bleeding heart liberals, anyway, were they. Which makes your context rather mysterious. Of course it's gone rather out of fashion to compare liberals to the Chinese Communists, those being the new best friends of big business and the WSJ. My view of the political spectrum places what you would call the Far Left and Right at the same end. nazis (National "Socialists"), communists, theocracies, crony capitalism, welfare states, mixed economies, conservatism, liberalism, etc. Slide them all across the spectrum (not necessarily in that particular order) to laizzez-faire capitalism, libertarianism, and anarchy (classic Greek definition) at the other end. Labels can be, and often are, so much rhetorical verbiage, serving to obfuscate meaningful discourse. Debating issues without clearly defining the context is like swimming in molasses. Not for me. Regards, JB