I’m a conservative, but l can’t stand corruption in large corporations
And l can’t stand the stupidity of religion, but it’s still better to be free of government.
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TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP
Riding a conservative ticket shouldnt make one automatically a conservative..
did you think you’d live to see so called liberals stomping on speech and freedoms?
did you think you’d live to see so called liberals stomping on speech and freedoms?
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Doug1943 · 80-89, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout No, to be honest, I didn't. I thought free speech was a core value of the (non-Communist) Left.
But actually, what we call 'Left' today has little in common with the people who were 'Left' several decades ago.
What has changed is 'Identity Politics', which has replaced 'Equality of Rights' as the Left's Pole Star. Some of the vocabulary is the same, some of the liberal sentiments (not bad ones, either) that it appeals to are the same ... but the actual political aims are quite different. (There are people on the Left, including some quite hard-core Marxists, who understand this, and mutter about -- but given the political pressures of their milieu, they can't say much out loud. I can point you to an excellent refutation of post-modernism, written by a Marxist; an excellent review of that horrible play recently which portrayed Emily Dickenson as a lesbian; and other things that could have been written by a conservative -- or any sane person.
But we've got to have government. The only argument is what is should do, and not do. Isaiah Berlin's concept of "positive and negative freedoms" is relevant here.
But actually, what we call 'Left' today has little in common with the people who were 'Left' several decades ago.
What has changed is 'Identity Politics', which has replaced 'Equality of Rights' as the Left's Pole Star. Some of the vocabulary is the same, some of the liberal sentiments (not bad ones, either) that it appeals to are the same ... but the actual political aims are quite different. (There are people on the Left, including some quite hard-core Marxists, who understand this, and mutter about -- but given the political pressures of their milieu, they can't say much out loud. I can point you to an excellent refutation of post-modernism, written by a Marxist; an excellent review of that horrible play recently which portrayed Emily Dickenson as a lesbian; and other things that could have been written by a conservative -- or any sane person.
But we've got to have government. The only argument is what is should do, and not do. Isaiah Berlin's concept of "positive and negative freedoms" is relevant here.