> Sam wrote: > Again a simplistic label. Was FDR a liberal, a conservative or both? > If he was a liberal, is he anything like the liberals of today? >
He was *definitely* a liberal and an inspiration to some of the greatest future liberals like LBJ, Mondale, HHH, Wellstone, et al. You keep saying "simplistic" but you perpetually don't define what you mean; I will for argument's sake: Generally American politics considers 3 areas: social, fiscal, and foreign policy: * Socially liberal means you want less gov't in social issues such as drugs, gambling, and s3x. That's me. Socially conservative means you want the federal gov't to define and enforce morality (making prostitution illegal, for example.) * Fiscally liberal means you want the gov't to solve local issues from a national level (e.g., No Children Left Behind) * Foreign policy liberals want the US involved in foreign politics vs. isolationism. Therefore, non-simplistically, but generally, I'm socially liberal, but fiscally and a foreign policy conservative. How about you? How would you define it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:244324 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
