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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4895210" data-attributes="member: 63706">The thing is, I consider myself aligned with conservative values, but if this were 1776, I would be considered a liberal. Anyone who thinks individual liberty can be stolen in small chunks by commitee, or all at once by force or coercion, are in favor of tyranny, whether the source of tyranny be government or private enterprise. It&#039;s a mistake believe that private tyranny is any better than public. As such, the only useful distinction is between people who favor concentrated power and those who favor individual liberty. Those are the two polar opposites that cannot be reconciled. Anyone considering themselves moderate would be for balancing the interests of power and the interests of individual liberty. On that spectrum I find myself somewhere between the middle and unbridled individual liberty. Everything else, conservative-liberal, left-right, public-private, race, class, gender, it&#039;s all meant to confuse, distract and divide while those inclined to concentrate power into their own hands go about their business with little resistance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4895210, member: 63706"] The thing is, I consider myself aligned with conservative values, but if this were 1776, I would be considered a liberal. Anyone who thinks individual liberty can be stolen in small chunks by commitee, or all at once by force or coercion, are in favor of tyranny, whether the source of tyranny be government or private enterprise. It's a mistake believe that private tyranny is any better than public. As such, the only useful distinction is between people who favor concentrated power and those who favor individual liberty. Those are the two polar opposites that cannot be reconciled. Anyone considering themselves moderate would be for balancing the interests of power and the interests of individual liberty. On that spectrum I find myself somewhere between the middle and unbridled individual liberty. Everything else, conservative-liberal, left-right, public-private, race, class, gender, it's all meant to confuse, distract and divide while those inclined to concentrate power into their own hands go about their business with little resistance. [/QUOTE]

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