I had a revelation on the toilet today. The reason America skews conservative while the rest of the world skews liberal has nothing to do with being backwards, as many regions and countries are backwards while being liberal. It is because conservatism is the ideology of victory and contempt towards perceived inferiors and America is the only superpower left. While liberalism is the ideology longing for equality and the ideology of the subjugated.
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Anonymous2007-01-11 18:57
America's not "as far down" the "imperial path" as the rest of the world's countries are, because they're so young. Conservatism's more about preserving the status quo, or the "old empire" way more than "European liberalism" which is more "French school" while America's more based on the "British school" as British classical liberals founded the nation, and thusly are the "old empire"'s reigning ideological symbols. But with the paradoxical waste of "neoconservatism," it's more of a show these days.