Flying with Libertarian Hawks

[Justin]

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.