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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
They may not have much meaning, but I think they are harmless, and facilitate conversation. BTW -- is this the point of your whole "Right" thing? Clever.
S_A_M
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Basically. I think I know how people felt about the term "liberal" being a disparaging term 10 or 12 years ago now. There are so many things that are misconceptions and mischaracterizations of the actual doctrines, that the use in modern language almost seems arbitrary. So arbitrary, in fact, that Club recently was asking something like if Buchanan was a good conservative or model Rightist (something like that). I almost cried when I saw it, because its like the Evil Media taught our exemplary citizen how to swear.
Maybe we could start a movement to positively define the terms "conservative" and "liberal", so that the various positions of the candidates could each be compared to the actual terms. Something tells me that Bush doesn't come out nearly as much the principled and committed conservative as I would like, or as people assert.
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