On 2004-09-10T12:02:12-0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
Damn right. 'Conservative' means agreeing with the most vocal proponents of the current right wing apparatchiks. It seems to have little or no relationship to fiscally conservative ideas.
Aren't the most vocal proponents of right-wing policies the Republican apparatchiks themselves? I think "the most vocal proponents of" is redundant.
"Left wing" now refers to anyone who disagrees with the 'Conservatives', even if said left wing policies are practically identical to those of the 'right'.
The notion of right-wing and left-wing as an axis/dimension is garbage. I think anyone who votes Republican is right-wing and anyone who votes Democrat is left-wing. There is no remotely accurate one-dimensional political scale, and left-wing or right-wing voting doesn't imply anything about a person's views on the two-dimensional (personal vs economic liberty) scale that seems to be "in" these days.