Liberal vs. Conservative (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 14:09 (5312 days ago) @ David Turell

Two different mind-sets are present in Liberals and Conservatives. It is the latter who question Darwin, Global Warming, and express other non-mainstream views. I know this difference colors the discussion here. 
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> I started as a young New Yorker and very liberal. Later very conservative and followed the famous line: if you are not liberal at 20 you have no heart, if not conservative at 40, you have no brain. I know Churchill used this statement, but it goes back before him. Lord Chesterton, perhaps? The following link is like my story, and I am mostly a libertarian at this juncture, one who understands and appreciates the needs for minimal societal rules. In this case the discussion represents how liberal the education establishment is in this country. 
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> http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/swimming_upstream_the_life_of.html-I'm flatly "middle of the road." Social conservatism is something I hate with a passion, because of fact that it wants to use the government to push cultural and social norms. -Fiscal conservatism is flatly right, but complete Laissez-faire cannot solve all societal problems. (If a business must manage people, who manages the businesses?)-
Individual liberty should be maximized. -While I have no issue with what causes the basic mentality behind modern liberal thought (people need help) I'm more apt to stick to the "tough-love" mentality of "Teach a man to fish." -Libertarian is something I can (almost) support. I disagree with the party's idea of eliminating the Dept. of Education. Standards mean nothing without a body to enforce them. Plus, someone needs to dictate what the national policy is; we need scientists, engineers, and teachers, right? However, left to market forces we will continue to have a glut, because basic research = government research. (There's no marketability of gluon and hadron research, for example.) -I'm more conservative than I would have thought I was 10 years ago, but again; market forces cannot solve all problems.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"