--- Davd Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) no MORE change. Keep the reforms of yesteryear.. > but then modify them so that... > > 2) the top 20,000 frat brothers and golf buddies can > get richer and richer without providing any goods or > services.
Really? I'm a conservative, and I don't support either of those. I think the first is absurd. And the second sounds a lot more like _liberalism_ to me. A bunch of people who got rich (or, much more often, whose parents got rich) on the system and then want to change it so that no one else can do the same. That's if I wanted to ascribe motives to liberals the way - and even the most reasonable liberals on the list, like Dan - do to conservatives. I don't, though. So I'd say the first is ridiculous (certainly for _all_ conservatives) and the first is just the product of different ways people think about how societies work. Since it was conservatives, not liberals, who stood up for free markets in the period since 1945, and they're the only way anyone knows to allow people to get rich, I'd say that to first order the empirics are on my side Dr. Brin. > Still, I do know this. The democrats are varied. > You'll get some bright, some not. But the Goppers > have driven away all the homosapiens from their > upper > echelons. There are no more Dwight Eisenhowers and > Barry Goldwaters. It's all frat boys, top to > bottom. Paul Wolfowitz's academic credentials are better than those of anyone on this list. As are Condi Rice's. Colin Powell? Dick Armitrage? They certainly fit _my_ definition of frat boys. Wait, how many of President Clinton's close official advisors were African-American? That would be _zero_, right? Maybe one, if you count Ron Brown. > > That's why our new Guv Ahnold frightens them so > much. > Not ONLY might he breed a new generation of > BULLETPROOF KENNEDYS! But his inclusive and honest > version of republicanism is the spectre of a branch > of > the party that the frat boys had been so sure they > had > made extinct. > > db Or it might be that some old-fashioned people had qualms about someone with a record that was, well, socially questionable. Now, I'm a conservative and I was, and am, a fan of Arnold's, although I will be less so if he doesn't do something to get California spending under control. A trained poodle could do a better job than Grey Davis, though. Doesn't seem like your "varied" Democrats did all that good a job of picking leaders, does it? ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
