Yeah but. . . no. People have gotten more liberal on social issues (liberatarian? Fuck if I know). Even the "liberals" back in the seventies wouldn't touch Gay Marriage with a ten foot pole, now it's an actual movement with specific gains in a number of states. People don't even flinch anymore at a female Speaker, Secretary of State, CEO of a corporation or female general being the deputy director at the NRO. We have a black president, and don't even try to sell me on the notion that it could happen in the 70's. We're closer to something vaguely resembling national health insurance, which was a dead-on-arrival concept until the mid 90's. Something's shifted. Sure, a lot of our politicians have become more authoritarian (as in, they want to dictate policy--left or right--from Washington), but the overall social shift, while seriously polarized, is towards more liberalism. ~String
I'm so conservative/far right that I'm almost in another catagory. I am kind of liberal as far as anti-animal cruelty goes but mostly very, very conservative.
We are farther from it than we were in Nixon's day, when what was being discussed on both sides was actually national health insurance and not mandated private health insurance, and Ted Kennedy was holding out for something like Wellstone's single payer (http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/14236/kennedy_historians_debunk_"greatest_regret"_myth/) as an actual alternative on the table, while Nixon was offering something similar to Obama's plan as the right wing position (Nixon also met an economic emergency by imposing wage and price controls - again, something that the right wing political factions in the US at the time found regrettable but ultimately acceptable in their representative). Nothing that threatens Wal Mart or Monsanto upper echelon management has shifted toward greater threat to Wal Mart or Monsanto upper echelon management. Unions, taxes on rich people, community control over local industry and land use, punishments for crimes, corporate involvement in military force or action, - - - those are power shifts. Few of the power shifts have been "liberal".
Yes its quite apparent you're an extremist... :m: Peace be unto you Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I noticed that you spelled liberal beginning with a small letter, but you spelled conservative beginning with a large letter. Is that relevant? Do you know that the Nixon campaign actually created the notion of the liberal media, and it still sticks to this day even though it is false? Labels created by propaganda do not usually last long, so tally your results fast before they morph further into the oblivion of meaninglessness. :bugeye:
No its not relevant- I don't pay too much attention to my typing- I usually correct stuff many times Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Peace be unto you Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Is there a difference between Liberal and liberal, Conservative and conservative? Is one a political position, the other an ideology? I think of myself as an opinionated but laissez faire person. I'm as stringly opposed to people telling me what to think as I am to forcing people to do things against their will.
A useless answer Not in the U.S. I can't speak for other nations. In the States, the difference might simply be an implication of respect or a lack thereof. Or not.
I dunno--I took the quiz a long time ago. Check gotoquizes.com, that's where the image source points.
Try this one: http://www.theadvocates.org/quizp/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Smallest_Political_Quiz
I'm a classical liberal, though I take it that that is not what is meant by "liberal" here. Thus I chose conservative for the purposes of the poll, though I mean more of a libertarian conservative.
