Zeus, you accept the (current) conservative view of "liberal", but then accept the conservatives' view of themselves. The conservatives in the US (and here I am primarily speaking of Republicans) believe in socialism, socialism for big business. They will moan about a million spent on some social welfare program and then turn around and give 5 million to a big corporation to subsidize it's operations.
There is no such thing as a "free market". The transnats have so much influence that even governments bow to their wishes. Look to Rollerball for a vision of that future. I am more concerned with Big Brother from a transnat sense than I am from any government. After all, a government has to maintain SOME credibility with its citizens to stay in business. The corps (rhymes with corpse) do not, they've got the money to tell EVERYBODY to stuff it.
I love the conservatives, I really do. Here in the US they always talk about shrinking the government, getting it out of our lives. Everything the government does in a social sense is "socialism". Then the government turns around and doles out hundreds of millions to fat cat corporations. Why isn't this "socialism"?
Too, for all their talk about "family values", if you look at the programs espoused by conservatives, they are more intrusive than anything the "librals" can come up with. I see conservatives as anal-retentives that want to totally control us while giving the internats full reign in whatever they want (read, WTC).
As Bob Dylan once said, "Money don't talk, it swears".
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Zeus, you accept the (current) conservative view of "liberal", but then accept the conservatives' view of themselves. The conservatives in the US (and here I am primarily speaking of Republicans) believe in socialism, socialism for big business. They will moan about a million spent on some social welfare program and then turn around and give 5 million to a big corporation to subsidize it's operations. There is no such thing as a "free market". The transnats have so much influence that even governments bow to their wishes. Look to Rollerball for a vision of that future. I am more concerned with Big Brother from a transnat sense than I am from any government. After all, a government has to maintain SOME credibility with its citizens to stay in business. The corps (rhymes with corpse) do not, they've got the money to tell EVERYBODY to stuff it.
I love the conservatives, I really do. Here in the US they always talk about shrinking the government, getting it out of our lives. Everything the government does in a social sense is "socialism". Then the government turns around and doles out hundreds of millions to fat cat corporations. Why isn't this "socialism"? Too, for all their talk about "family values", if you look at the programs espoused by conservatives, they are more intrusive than anything the "librals" can come up with. I see conservatives as anal-retentives that want to totally control us while giving the internats full reign in whatever they want (read, WTC). As Bob Dylan once said, "Money don't talk, it swears".