On 2004-09-10T12:02:12-0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > > Damn right. 'Conservative' means agreeing with the most vocal proponents of > the current right wing apparatchiks. It seems to have little or no > relationship to fiscally conservative ideas.
Aren't the most vocal proponents of right-wing policies the Republican apparatchiks themselves? I think "the most vocal proponents of" is redundant. > "Left wing" now refers to anyone who disagrees with the > 'Conservatives', even if said left wing policies are practically > identical to those of the 'right'. The notion of right-wing and left-wing as an axis/dimension is garbage. I think anyone who votes Republican is right-wing and anyone who votes Democrat is left-wing. There is no remotely accurate one-dimensional political scale, and left-wing or right-wing voting doesn't imply anything about a person's views on the two-dimensional (personal vs economic liberty) scale that seems to be "in" these days.