militarybrat wrote:
greenblue wrote "Chuchulainn wrote:
Some jerks will claim to be Christians, but aren't. These people serve as Satan's tools to turn you against the faith.
You mean conservative christians?"
Why does everything have to be conservative or liberal. There are good and bad people on both sides. Jerks are everywhere dispite political or religious affiliation or any other factor.
The old one-dimensional categories of 'right' and 'left', established for the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly of 1789, are overly simplistic for today's complex political landscape. For example, who are the 'conservatives' in today's Russia? Are they the unreconstructed Stalinists, or the reformers who have adopted the right-wing views of conservatives like Margaret Thatcher ? On the standard left-right scale, how do you distinguish leftists like Stalin and Gandhi? It's not sufficient to say that Stalin was simply more left than Gandhi. There are fundamental political differences between them that the old categories on their own can't explain. Similarly, we generally describe social reactionaries as 'right-wingers', yet that leaves left-wing reactionaries like Robert Mugabe and Pol Pot off the hook . . .
so, I agree that the old 'Liberal vs Conservative' argument is outmoded and out dated. Besides the opposite of Liberal is AUTHORITARIANISM, not 'Conservative'.