ManusJustus said:
In America, the term Conservative and Liberal are political push-button names that dont mean exactly what they should. The free market is liberal, no gun control is liberal, and so forth. I'm sure you've heard the term liberal economies, which means right-wing free markets. Likewise, a controlled market and gun control is a authoritarion/conservative standpoint. Essentially, both liberals and conservative have characteristics of each other but arrive at different conclusions for where people should have freedoms and where they shouldnt. It seems like conservatives want a liberal economy and a authoritarian society while liberals want an authoritarian economy and a liberal society. I guess everyone wants some freedom and some control in their lives. |
Which is why they both suck.
Me i'm for the Teddy Roosevelt doctrine. Stay the hell out of everyones lives and only interfere in buisnesses when trustbusting/stopping them from outright lieing.
Though that's also why i'm voting for McCain. Most likely to come through on that.
None of the social issues are ever going to change. Sure i'd like gay marriage to be legal... but like 70%+ of the country is against it.
The social issues won't change cause the parties don't want them too... they'e too big wedge issues.
I mean.... Obama is against gay marriage.... Kerry is against gay marriage.... but Kerry lost a lot of votes because he wasn't "against it enough."
