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TheBlueOne has a lot of good points.
mpfree
(Dec 6 06, 18:04)Has hell just frozen over?
You know, I get pegged as a liberal on the PVN all the time, and I'm really not, at least not in International affairs. I'm a pretty hardcore "realist" and my whole beef with Bushies since 9-11 has been their innate radical foreign policy, with little basis in reality.
On the domestic side, I don't really care about guns or abortion too much as dividing issues, and I like God kept away from my government - but how does that stand exactly make me a liberal I don't quite understand. I also do think government regulation is neccessary to a certain degree to keep the "fair" in "free and fair markets" - like for example I see big problems with the monopoly in the broadcast industry, don't like this whole corporate extension of copyright (innovation and business models based on through legal loopholes leads an economy down the shitter in my mind) and would really like to see the education system improved..but then again how does this peg me as a liberal? No one in america is a freaking liberal, compared to your average European or Venuzuelan...this whole liberal vs. conservative crap is a horse and pony show trotted out by the corporate interests to keep us plebes arguing about putting ten commandments on public buildings and wondering who got peggy sue pregnant...smoke and mirrors, bread and circuses..same shit, different millenium..