Liberalism NJC

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But I wonder who you're saying isn't liberal?  Maybe you use the 
words differently in America. In Europe, liberalism is associated 
with a certain set of ideas that might be held by any member of the 
labour, liberal, environmentalist and conservative parties.  There 
are conservative labour party activists, liberal conservatives, 
conservative environmentalists and so on.  Many modern so-called 
conservatives are much more liberal than traditional leftwing labour 
activists.  I see a lack of liberalism in some posts from jmdl 
members who would call themselves leftwing, and I see liberalism in 
posts from some people regarded as rightwing.  The dialectic has 
moved beyond these terms so they're obselete and misleading, and they 
blind us to an individual's reasoning on any given point - they're 
prejudicial labels, anti-liberal in fact.

Sarah

At 2:53 PM -0500 02/21/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may just be me,but I think part of it may be that we associate a 
"Joni Mitchell" discussion group with people having at least fairly 
liberal views.we get a little shocked at contrary views.I guess it's 
hard for us leftists to be as open minded as we could be sometimes in 
accepting other points of view