Title: “A society that does not recognize that each individual has
values of
his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respe
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David
“A society that does not recognize that each
individual has
values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no
respect for the
dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.”—Fredrich August von
Hayek
On 1/11/2012 1:52 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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I'm a Centrist Liberal
Progressive Radical Moderate -- How about you?
Edited on Mon Feb-27-06 03:10 PM by
Armstead
(Just
have to get this off my chest.)
Sometimes we get so hung up on labels that it gets silly.
We also get caught up in various buzzwords, like "pragmatic"
and "electable" and whether a particilar position is "too
far left" or "too spineless."
Personally, I find myself arguing like a centrist sometimes
and arguing like a progressive lefty at others. In some
instances I feel like a voice of moderation. At other times
I feel like a radical rabble rouser.
Anyone else experience this paradox here?
It's a lot easier-- and probably more satisfying -- to take
a stance that is all-purpose. Like "I'll support any
Democrat, even if he is a cross between Simon Legree and
Attilla the Hun." Or the opposite position of "All Democrats
are spinless weasels."
It also doesn't really advance us to dismiss specific
positions, just because it might be "too liberal" or "too
much like GOP lite."
IMO we would go a lot farther if we'd all shake up our
preconceptions sometimes and actually discuss the substance
and specifics of divisive issues, and hash them out with the
goal of actually identifying where we might agree and
disagree -- and how we can find enough common ground to have
a more united front against the GOP CONservative Machine.
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