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Originally Posted by richardoe
The impression I have of American political parties is that the Democrats are conservative and the Republicans are extremely conservative. Think Im joking? Well if the Democrats are the so called liberals would they in the eighties have had someone like Michael Foot or Neil Kinnock as their leader? I dont think so!!!!
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Not to get into to too much of a debate about it, but this may be kind of true...if only because once you get past the wide swath of ideals the terms liberal and conservative have whole cultural nuances of meaning that may not translate fully to another countries value set.
What would be a really interesting exercise is to start a forum posting asking for each person to state first how they view themselves ideologically. Then have them define three key descriptions of their ideology...then have them define three key descriptions of their opposing ideology. No flaming. No arguing. Just an experiment to see how people perceive their ideology vs an opposing ideology.