There is a leadership contest going on in the UK at the moment for the
Liberal Democrat Party, although I have never voted lib dem one of the
contenders manifestos matches my views quite closely - it's a mix of
traditional left & right wing policies.

Interesting reading: http://tinyurl.com/8bxv5 (pdf)

On 2/14/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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::
>
> 

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