A Conflagration's Pause

[Guest guest]

D'accord, mon ami. Quite right, the labels mean nothing and categorical

thinking is just us being manipulated.

 

On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 06:18 AM,

wrote:

 

> Let's don't stereotype.

 

She said, " the Liberals I know, " and wasn't side-swiping all who choose

to wear that or any other ridiculous label.

>

> I'm a Liberal

 

Oops. LOL

 

> and was trying to conserve the environment, be

> self-reliant and so on probably before you were even born.

 

So order-of-birth counts? I'd always wondered.

 

> Nor do LIberals want the Government to regulate everything:

> that's just propaganda, dis-information.

 

Very true. ALL Government tries to grab as much power as it can,

period. Don't believe the fake two-party nonsense. It's all just

government. As Eric Idle of Monty Python once observed: No matter who

you vote for, a politician gets in.

 

Conservatives claim to want smaller, less intrusive government. Ha. As

for example witness not only the fact that under Reagan, Bush I, and

Bush II, the government expanded hugely, invaded all levels of our

private, personal lives, and ran us from the biggest creditor to the

biggest debtor nation in history, but also the Homeland Security Act.

 

Sieg Heil.

 

Don't believe what anyone says, ever. As the Gus Grissom character

played by Wm. Peterson on CSI shows, only physics doesn't lie.

 

>

> Political discussions on mailing lists and Usenet inevitably

> degenerate to name-calling and ill-will.

 

It needn't. That is up to the quality of the individuals involved.

 

> You've just

> insulted me, for instance, probably unmeaningly.

 

I can't quite see why her words insulted you, except of course that you

chose to be insulted. You're right, flame wars spark quickly when

politics are raised. However, politics are unavoidable, and there are

civil ways of discussing such things, despite the shouting matches on TV

and the unwavering ad hominem attacks both sides pay for with our soft

money.

>

> Pat

>

>

" I am a human being, and nothing human is alien to me. "

--Terence, Roman playwright