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Author:  daal [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 8:50 am ]
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For a school project on terrorism, my daughter is conducting a few short interviews, and she would like to interview someone whose political views do not hail from the liberal left. If you would have time to answer the 5 questions, please send me a PM. Thanks!
Author:  DrStraw [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 9:17 am ]
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daal wrote:
... whose political views do not hail from the liberal left.


Do you prefer the liberal right? Or the conservative left?
Author:  Bill Spight [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 9:38 am ]
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Quote:
Neither left nor right, but in front!


:D
Author:  Boidhre [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:36 am ]
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Liberal left means different things in different countries and to different people. Also do you mean classical liberal, what Americans call a liberal or social liberal? :P
Author:  daal [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:49 am ]
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I was using "liberal" in the American sense (communists? ;)). She wants to interview some Americans from a few different sides of the political spectrum, and has already spoken to some left-leaners.
Author:  Bill Spight [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 12:02 pm ]
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daal wrote:
I was using "liberal" in the American sense (communists? ;)).


These days American liberals are centrists. ;)

It's quite confusing, actually. A plurality, perhaps a majority of Americans identify themselves as conservative, but hold liberal views. :o
Author:  hyperpape [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 12:18 pm ]
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More fun with categorization: there are types of conservatism that map poorly to the Democrat/Republican divide (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... an/306774/).
Author:  Joaz Banbeck [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:42 pm ]
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Are Libertarians ok?
Author:  daal [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:54 pm ]
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Joaz Banbeck wrote:
Are Libertarians ok?

How do you mean that? Uh, I mean definitely! :)
Author:  DrStraw [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 3:05 pm ]
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Bill Spight wrote:
daal wrote:
I was using "liberal" in the American sense (communists? ;)).


These days American liberals are centrists. ;)

It's quite confusing, actually. A plurality, perhaps a majority of Americans identify themselves as conservative, but hold liberal views. :o


I heard a poll the other day which said that 47% of American are independents, having no affiliation with either flavor or Republicrats.
Author:  DrStraw [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 3:06 pm ]
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Joaz Banbeck wrote:
Are Libertarians ok?


I consider myself an environmental libertarian, if such a thing exists. That is, I espouse libertarian views as long as it does not ruin the environment.
Author:  Stefany93 [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 3:33 pm ]
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Oh, a topic discussing politics - lovely! ***grabs popcorn... :twisted:
Author:  DrStraw [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:27 pm ]
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Stefany93 wrote:
Oh, a topic discussing politics - lovely! ***grabs popcorn... :twisted:


Tell us about Bulgarian politics.
Author:  Fedya [ Sat Jan 31, 2015 7:36 pm ]
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You could always listen to Radio Bulgaria.
Author:  Stefany93 [ Sun Feb 01, 2015 4:01 am ]
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DrStraw wrote:
Stefany93 wrote:
Oh, a topic discussing politics - lovely! ***grabs popcorn... :twisted:


Tell us about Bulgarian politics.


If you want to feel sleepy... :D
Author:  goTony [ Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:59 pm ]
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In this changing day and age what is a conservative and what is a liberal?
Author:  DrStraw [ Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:04 pm ]
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goTony wrote:
In this changing day and age what is a conservative and what is a liberal?


Good question. The Australian Liberal Party is the right wing party. The left wing party is the Labour Party.
Author:  goTony [ Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:10 pm ]
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“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.” – ILN, 4/19/24 GK Chesterton.....
Author:  Bantari [ Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:24 pm ]
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goTony wrote:
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.” – ILN, 4/19/24 GK Chesterton.....


This sounds about right.
Progressives try accomplishing something, right or wrong.
While conservatives try blocking everything, right or wrong.
Looks surprisingly like the snapshot of the US congress the past few years.
Anyways...

<troll>
Go players are, on average, rather on the smart side, so you won't find that many conservatives in here, I am afraid...
Try the chess forums. :twisted:
</troll>
Author:  Joaz Banbeck [ Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:02 am ]
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Perhaps these last several comments might be better addressed privately to Daal's daughter.

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