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I agree more with conservatives than liberals and I agree with their criticisms of each other except the completely paranoid ramblings. I'm not 100% either. I sort of agree with the libertarians, but not with them all either.
On the ol', economic freedom vs personal freedom graph I'm very close to reagan, but I disagree with a number of his policies and am more libertarian than conservative. liberal/conservative didn't spring up out of nowhere, they are classifications that simply cover whether people want things to stay the way they are or not and the fact that we live in a capitalist state where people with lots of money can get quite powerful means that conservatives happen to be capitalists. In soviet russia, the conservatives were the politburo and planned economists and the liberals were those who wanted to buy jeans, drink pepsi, own their own home and set up their own business etc etc..
They are malleable terms, but in the western culture we live in it is obvious what their qualities are. I generally rank ideas in 3 categories, the good, the bad and the ugly (stupid). I might start a thread on my ideas if I'm not so bored.
I'm going to tripfag this message so if anyone starts this topic and makes it sound really stupid you know it's not me