Re: Re: MD junk or politics on this list

From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Fri Apr 23 2004 - 22:13:24 BST

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    Dear Steve Peterson,

    You wrote 16 Apr 2004 13:30:36 -0500:
    'I think the best simple explanation of the difference between a liberal and
    a conservative in America is ... that a liberal will tend to point to
    external causes of human suffering (e.g. oppression) and point to external
    solutions (e.g. welfare) while the conservative will point to internal
    causes of human suffereing (e.g. laziness) and point to internal solutions
    (e.g. insentives, traditional family values).'

    So American liberals tends to liberate people from external patterns of
    value and American conservatives tend to liberate people from internal
    patterns of value? What do they want to conserve, if anything?? 'Freedom'
    being a core value for every American (or so it seems), do American liberals
    want more external freedom and American conservatives more internal
    freedom??

    With friendly greetings,

    Wim

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