From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 19:08:15 MDT
Anders writes
> > This right-left liberal- conservative thing has always confused me,
> > conservatives are supposed to be in favor of Low taxes and preventing
> > women from having abortions but what does one have to do with the
> > other? It's the same with wanting rigid anti drug laws and school
> > vouchers too, I just don't see why it has to be a package deal.
>
> It is about underlying ideology, something which quite a few politicians
> and citizens forget these days but which actually has rather profound
> controlling effects on ideas.
Yes.
> Conservatism is in the abstract about conserving existing institutions
> against change,
Well, in another thread I rejected trying to establish too close
a link between real political Conservatives and simply being "against
change". Try asking any political conservatives (at least in the
U.S.A. whether they'd like to conserve against change existing
institutions like the Department of Education, the U.N., and
the EPA!
Lee
P.S. gts said
> Harvey mentioned in another thread that it's a shame that we sometimes still
> get into left/right polarized debates. I think it happens because we still
> live in a left/right polarized world.
Yes, and it's polarized for *reasons*, (one being that there are
not enough libertarians!)
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