Liberal / Conservative

[tieguy]

Thanks and I'm certain in this place your view is a very minority opinion but then I don't help the cause either. On purpose!

more a voice of dissention then one of reason.

[moreluck]

Explanation!


I have often wondered why it is that the conservatives are called the “right” and the liberals are called the “left.”

By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible:

Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left.”

Yep, that’s it!

[klein]

Consertavtives are only in America.

They don't extist in Conservatives Governments like Canada or Germany.
Not even in Iraq or Iran.

Only in America.
God bless America !

[MrFedEx]

Explanation!


I have often wondered why it is that the conservatives are called the “right” and the liberals are called the “left.”

By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible:

Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left.”

Yep, that’s it!

Sigh.I have often wondered why many top conservative pundits never finished college. I'd say that "The mind of the fool inclines to the right, and the heart of the wise to the left", but that would be bucking the irrefutable nature of the Bible, wouldn't it?

[trplnkl]

Sigh.I have often wondered why many top conservative pundits never finished college. I'd say that "The mind of the fool inclines to the right, and the heart of the wise to the left", but that would be bucking the irrefutable nature of the Bible, wouldn't it?

You could say that, but you could be wrong. I would give way to the bible long before to you.

[wkmac]

1971' NY Times op-ed: A Split in the Right Wing

When William Buckley and the National Review crowd injected evangelical anticommunism into right-wing circles, the conservatives found themselves split into two broad camps: the libertarians who were very anarchistic on domestic issues and military isolationists in foreign policy, and the Russell Kirk and William Buckley traditionalists who saw the existence of atheistic communism as a threat to the religious and cultural inheritance of the Western world. Many libertarians went their own way, but others embraced the new fusionism which sought to draw a bridge between advocates of individual freedom on the one hand, and those who wanted to rid the world of Communism at any cost on the other.
It was inevitable that this internal schizophrenia would lead to a major eruption, and this occurred in 1968 when Karl Hess, Goldwater's former speechwriter, threw off his anticommunism for total anarchism at the urging of free-market economist Murray Rothbard.
Now William Buckley is in a quandary. The hysteria he has been displaying in recent issues of National Review and in his syndicated column of January 14, 1971 is totally out of character for him. He is upset, it seems, because the New York Times Magazine carried articles on December 6 and January 10 dealing with the libertarian movement in the United States, and publicized the split occurring on the Right between conservative and anarcholibertarian factions. This is a development Buckley hoped to keep under cover — referring to it, whenever he did, as a family squabble rather than the permanent breach it has become.

Another point from this 40 year old piece that I found of interest was this:

And as far as that issue is concerned, there has been far more talk of decentralization and local control of institutions and public money on the Left than in the pages of National Review in recent years. Even left-liberals have begun to recognize the follies of corporate-liberalism and to call for reforms, so Buckley is whipping a dead horse when he attempts to raise the specter of laissez-faire "lunacies" on the libertarian Right.

My thanks to the Mises Institute for republishing this op-ed.

[moreluck]

It's hard to be a liberal....

[klein]

I often wonder why the conservatives in the US are red and the liberals blue.
Totally backwards from the rest of the world.

It's definitly odd.

[trplnkl]

I often wonder why the conservatives in the US are red and the liberals blue.
Totally backwards from the rest of the world.

It's definitly odd.

That's because they flipped a coin and the democrats got to pick first.

[MrFedEx]

You could say that, but you could be wrong. I would give way to the bible long before to you.

I'm real. The Bible is a fairy tale. It's kind of like Trump's hair. Man-made, as in artificial.