[277] in libertarians
Re: liberals support civil liberties?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barrie Greene)
Tue Sep 27 18:49:52 1994
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 18:48:34
From: bdgreene@MIT.EDU (Barrie Greene)
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
<This is not to endorse the freedom-stealers of any political
persuasion.
<But we're a bit safer with some grumbling by the right about prayer
than
<with whining by the left about fairness.
A relevant point is that the school prayer, flagburning, etc group is
not really mainstream even amoung conservatives -- most don't
particularly care about these sorts of issues. Although the religious
right gets a dispproportionate amount of attention for their numbers,
none of their candidates (Robertson, Buchanan...) stands a chance of
ever winning a major nomination.
On the other hand, "fairness", redistribition of wealth, affirmative
action and so on seem to be quite mainstream, if not central, ideas on
the liberal side. Of course, this may be partly because anyone who does
question, say, the need for affirmative action is immediately denounced
as a conservative regardless of his opinions on other issues...
