On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:46 AM, rigsy03<[email protected]> wrote: > > Bush 43 is not considered a Conservative by Conservatives.
I second that emotion. I was flabbergasted when I noticed REPUBLICANS pushing medicare entitlement increases. Increasing the size and breadth of government doth not make a conservative. Nor does nation building. That's a neocon thing and I want no part of it. dj > > On Jul 29, 1:45�am, iam deheretic <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well you are right there, africa tends to have its own agenda and one I have >> never been able to make any sense of and I have friends there but most of >> them have escaped out of there. and they are very nice people. Africa is a >> category to it self. >> >> It is not so much a score card but an apparent attitude. �Liberal is >> associated with the left, flexibility and change and conservative is >> associated with the right and Status Quo hard line none changing policy >> adherence to a strict format. Or at least that is the way that I see it. >> >> Now I am american and I also hold my dutch citizenship (my wife ids dutch) >> as a result of listening to the news especially in english (british, CNN >> international, and euronews) governments are often time categorized by >> liberal , right, left , hard right, hard left, hard right conservative. hard >> left conservative and of course the moderates but they don't make the news. >> >> Bush and his cronies were classified as conservative hard right. So it is >> not really a score card per say just �an accumulation of news reports and >> personal opinion >> Allan >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:13 AM, BB47 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On Jul 28, 1:00 pm, iam deheretic <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > I am not sure but it seems most of the extreme hatred comes from those >> > who >> > > call them selves the conservative right, but that never makes sense to >> > me. >> > > Allan >> >> > Idon't have the scorecard �Allan but it is found everywhere. �You >> > know what I find very frightening? �That people �(all humans) might >> > have a "side" �that is truly horrific. In Rwanda for example. (not >> > right wing per se, make a note) �There were massacres where seemingly >> > ordinary people hacked to death , thousands and thousands with >> > machetes. Just because they were a "tribe" or an ethnic group. In >> > Bosnia? �Brutal murders beyond your worst nightmares. >> >> > �We can say these were just horrible people (they are) �but I fear >> > that they are somewhat ordinary people. �Something triggered them to >> > act this way. >> >> > � What I fear is that we have this side, this "switch" that can go >> > off when large groups of people start believing that another group is >> > "bad." �It causes people to not see people anymore. �They see them as >> > pests, no more than bugs to be exterminated. �Some sort of primevil >> > frenzy. >> >> > � I would like to believe in the good in people, but I fear there is >> > more than that locked away deep in the human animal. >> >> -- >> ( >> �) >> I_D Allan- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
