Long story short, we're all here for the entertainment. Can we do something else now? How about another liberal vs conservative meme for starters?
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SonOfSunaj2006-05-24 21:03
how about the REAL definition of conservatism
how about the REAL definition of Liberalism.
Conservatism is the "less is more" mentality of politics, meaning that they want as little govenment obstruction of peoples lives as possible. anything more than the government having basic military, police power (procicuting murderers, rapists, thieves, etc), and civil litigation(person A thinks person B owes them money and sues for it, govenment decides case) anything more does not belong in a pure conservative ideal.
(Anarchism can be seen as an extreem form of conservatism that doesn't even cover these three things)
Liberalism is the idea that the govenment needs to step into social, fiscal, and other matters of a private individuals because they either can't or won't manage these areas on their own. this incudes anything that doesn't fall under conservatism such as government control of food distubution, medical care, or redistribution of wealth through taxes, or little things like road construction, subsidies, employment laws, etc. Communism would be an economic system based on the liberal political theory(communism is not a political system, but it requires a liberal politial ideal, in which the government assumes that people can't handle much of anything on their own and takes over for them).
The U.S. govenment btw was founded on the idea of conservatism and the theory that if you give the govenment an inch and it takes a mile. And therefore you want the govenment to stay out of citizens life as much as possible. we are moving more and more towards a liberal idea of govenment where we have more and more interventon every day....also democrat and republican parties: both liberal.. the democrats are fiscally liberal, meaning they want more control over the financial institutions of the country, the republicans are socially liberal meaning they tend to go after private affair control more. either way you are totally fucked because whichever one the govenment takes control of first leads to the other one falling, although historically fiscally liberal government has been able to take complete control faster (communist russia, communist cuba, socialist nazi germany, etc.) OK any thoughts on this