On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > "Hey, 'Republicans and Democrats are the same' type folks (or even better, > 'Republicans will solve our fiscal problem' folk)-- what's your take on > this?" > > My take is that a lot Republicans politicians are full of shit. Being a > Republican elected official is not evidence of being conservative. > > That's why party labels are so ridiculous these days.
Well, that's a bit better logic than saying the Republicans are the worst represented party. That they have less cohesion than the Democrats, in reality. Et cetera. ;) But it still doesn't address your claims that they're both at least as bad as each other. These numbers don't look equally as bad. ... > I am even trying to steer clear of the liberal label since the left of this > day is in no way liberal. > > The progressive label is okay, but dated. Statetist is a better label. > Unfortunately, both leave out social justice, which is a big part of the > left's agenda these days. > > On the right, conservative is okay, but it has some connotations that I > don't like. Conservative tends to imply no changes, which isn't this case. > It should mean slow, measured change. Heh. Guess that's better than calling folk Nazis, neh? =] :Den -- I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service." Friedrich Nietzs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328457 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
