Originally posted by lazs2
yep... disdain for anyone who is not as smart or who is religous or even.... lives in a trailer... liberals love humanity but hate people.
kieran and hooligan summed it up. most of the "for your own good cause you will hurt yourself" laws are liberal ones but not all... the conservatives get in a few too.
libertarian is the only sensible way to be but it takes too much courage for most.
lazs
Interesting and illuminating thread. I had considered starting one similar as the dictionary definitions did not match the perceptions of the conservatives on this board.
That comment of Lazs is quite true. 'liberals love humanity but hate people'. I saw a similar comment in a newspaper here in Dublin where the columnist said the 'conservatives hate liberals but that's OK as liberals hate themselves'.
He went on to say that the neo conservatives in America nowdays are in fact closer to the radical liberals because they want to change things, ie depose dictators, reform laws etc. That's liberal territory. He pointed out that the real conservative doesn't want to change anything just sit tight and hold what they have.
The problem with being a true conservative or liberal is that anyone to the left or right of you, respectively is either a commie or a fascist.
The truth is that the best approach is the centrist. I'm a centrist so I take bits of conservativism and bits of liberalism and make up my own mind. I suspect most of us here exist somewhat in the middle. The west in general including America is ruled by the moderates and long may it continue. Bush is in fact more of a moderate than a conservative and despite popular caricuture is in fact a shrewd and intelligent man who avoids one extreme or another. He knows as most of us do that any wide drift to the right or left would rapidly become unpopular with the American people and is to be avoided. Clinton knew this too as did most American presidents.
So up with the CENTRISTS and down with the liberal/conservative alliance.
