From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 13:28:18 MDT
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:05:11PM -0400, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> and want to maintain the traditional status quo. The Liberal/Conservative
> reaction to all these issues seem to me to be totally consistent with those
> goals of expediting/preventing change or diversity.
>
> I don't see any randomness or contradiction. It seems all too frighteningly
> consistent.
Well, vouchers could be seen as giving families more choice and options as to
what schools to go to.
But yeah, this is the sense of 'liberal' and 'conservative' I think my friend
was using more than my "change good/change bad". Liberal as open-minded,
tolerant, open to change (more than favoring change for its own sake),
conservatives as preservative or restorative, trying to keep the status quo or
return to a recently disturbed state, usually favoring the power structure.
Not that you can't find contradictions in usage even here. But the world's
complex.
-xx- Damien X-)
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