Liberal vs. Conservative (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 19:54 (5312 days ago) @ David Turell

I don't know how you define 'social conservatism'. Looking at your responses I'd say you are leaning well to the conservative side. True conservatives such as Buckley, Podoretz, Irving Crystal, don't push norms. You are thinking of fundamentalist Christians. I think abortion is fine, and an individual decision.
> The FC's want to remake the law of the land.-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conservatism-This hits what I would define as "social conservatism" and though abortion is a non-issue to me, I'm definitely Libertarian in that dept. This category I broaden out to any social group wishing to dictate a cultural principle into law; this hits both "modern liberals" (in the typical sense of the world) -> 
> > 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." 
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> I agree and raised my kids that way. Too much help and control weakens the personality and spirit.
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> > 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.) 
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> I want the Dept. of Ed. to disappear. There are too many gov't mandates, too many non-deserving getting school lunches., and all sorrts of other odd-ball demands, always unfunded by congress. Bussing kids to hell-and-gone for diversity and more equal education has actually not been successful, and simply created white flight. Education was always under local control 'til recently. One of my med partners was a Houston school board member. If you had his insights, you'd agree with me, and he was a confirmed liberal. As for dictating national policy to create specific occupations, no one told me to go to medical school when i was in high school. It won't work at that level, but college and grad school scholarships will work. The WWII GI bill proved that.
> >-Sholarships definitely work. I'm strongly considering changing my graduate major to Information Assurance as there is a new "Cyber-Scholarship" designed to pay for EVERYTHING for an agreement to work for the feds for each year you took the scholarship. I'd get my Master's for free as well as experience working with Stratcom/NSA/CIA.-The only reason I'm hemming it is the double-whammy of being pigeonholed career-wise as well as working with military bureaucracy.

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