> gMoney wrote: > Actually, in this country anyway, "left" and "right" are tending to mean > less about a style of governing, and more about a set of social and moral > beliefs. >
Yeah. These days in the US if you're "conservative" it appears to mean you're an anti-Gay, wire-tapping, nation building, big gov't loving demagogue. Lefties are the opposite apparently. The traditional labels still seem to hold in Europe, though. There my stand-on-your-own-two-feet-and-take-responsibility-for-your-actions philosophy definitely makes me conservative. Positively Victorian in some eyes. After all the world has seen the 20th century I still marvel at how people have this strange idea that once a human takes a job in government they instantly become an unflawed altruist whose source of money is a magical tree and who can be trusted implicitly. The scary thing is that Pres Bush has imported the "trusted implicitly" to the US and now you have people saying, "Give the gov't unlimited power. They'll only use it on Al Quaeda." ::shivers:: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:196988 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
