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Liberepublicat Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 12:35 AM
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No More Conservatives?
I've read enough posts on this website to see that a substantial portion of people here would like for conservatives to "go away" -- or at least change their thinking to a liberal viewpoint. So, has anybody here thought about what the nation would be like if that really happened?

Would the remaining liberal block parse itself into liberals, moderates, and conservatives -- such that the conservatives (and maybe even moderates), would be "wished away" again? How would a single-party USA function? ...through coalitions, like parliamentary democracies?
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starroute Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 01:07 AM
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1. It's more that people want the old-style conservatives back
You know -- the ones who valued what was truest and most lasting in this country and did their best to preserve it, while warning us on the left against wild utopian schemes that might look good on paper but didn't take much account of actual human beings.

Some of us here might even be that style of conservative, if it still existed. Others of us would be glad to have conservatives like that around as a balance wheel and useful critic of our own more experimental urges.

What we don't like much are the radical rightists -- the people who aren't really conservatives at all, because they're willing to tamper with our most hallowed institutions, to overturn social and economic solutions of long standing, to trash the environment and destroy international initiatives for peace and justice, and to undermine bipartisan government and the smooth functioning of our democratic system -- all in the name of personal profit and power.

People of that sort are against everything America has ever stood for, and I'll admit that we wouldn't be very sorry if they did all vanish overnight.
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