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Re: liberals support civil liberties?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Tue Sep 27 09:18:01 1994
From: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 09:16:43 -0400
In-Reply-To: Vernon Imrich's message [Re: liberals support civil liberties?] as of Sep 26, 23:14
To: vimrich@flying-cloud.mit.edu (Vernon Imrich), hhuang@MIT.EDU,
libertarians@MIT.EDU
In your message [Re: liberals support civil liberties?]
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| >The purpose was to show that the simple model "liberals are
| for civil liberties, conservatives are for economic freedom" doesn't
| always hold. One could also give a list of economic restrictions favored
| by conservatives.
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| Well said. The temptation recently though, seems to be to forgive
| conservatives a bit more for their "transgressions" than liberals.
|
| Vernon
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I've heard the analogy before that, for a libertarian, watching the Dems
and Reps fight it out is like watching the Iran-Iraq war. The strategic
thing to do is to support the weaker side. And I think many libertarians
perceive the conservatives as being weaker at this time.
Kevin
