09-20-2005, 10:25 PM
I'm not sure why we try so hard to determine which basket a person belongs
in, but I fear many people use or misuse the terms liberal, socialist, and
progressive interchangably. And, if you are like I am, or most people, you
would have opinions on various subjects that span the gamute of ideologies.
In our two party system, I don't feel particularly represented by
Republicans (labeled as Conservatives), or Democrats (labeled as Liberals).
I would suppose it is a way to expediantly catagorize and then dismiss the
views and arguments of those who are not in your basket. *Sigh* Such is
the sad state of political discourse.
Even within the baskets I claim as my own (moderate libertarian somewhere
between individualist and socialist), I don't feel comfortable being in
there with the extreme (imho) views of objectivists like Ayn Rand or
socialists like Noam Chomsky.
I do know that I am pro-Locke and anti-Hobbes. :D
in, but I fear many people use or misuse the terms liberal, socialist, and
progressive interchangably. And, if you are like I am, or most people, you
would have opinions on various subjects that span the gamute of ideologies.
In our two party system, I don't feel particularly represented by
Republicans (labeled as Conservatives), or Democrats (labeled as Liberals).
I would suppose it is a way to expediantly catagorize and then dismiss the
views and arguments of those who are not in your basket. *Sigh* Such is
the sad state of political discourse.
Even within the baskets I claim as my own (moderate libertarian somewhere
between individualist and socialist), I don't feel comfortable being in
there with the extreme (imho) views of objectivists like Ayn Rand or
socialists like Noam Chomsky.
I do know that I am pro-Locke and anti-Hobbes. :D