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- From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
- Subject: Re: Re. Integrity
- Message-ID: <BxvItH.667@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <1992Nov16.220248.27226@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <wilder.721964511@mik.uky.edu> <carlson.722007837@cwis>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:46:14 GMT
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- In article <carlson.722007837@cwis> carlson@cwis.unomaha.edu (Brian D. Carlson) writes:
- )
- ) BTW I am a conservative, and I know why I am a conservative. My
- )parents are both liberals. The majority of my family are liberals.
-
- For me, it's the opposite. When my parents find out I'm pro-choice, the shit
- is going to hit the fan...
-
- )just don't agree with the idea that the state is the answer to all our
- )problems.
-
- This isn't really a fair description of liberals... many of us want the
- government to stop interfering in our lives. It is the conservatives who are
- trying to increase the power of government by allowing them to regulate
- morality.
-
- ) The one thing I don't understand is this. If liberalism is the
- )ultimate anser to all of our countries ills, why are the majority of
- )liberals I have met bitter and seemingly miserable people, while the
- )majority of conservatives I have met are easy going people who seem much
- )more happy with who they are in life?
-
- several possibilities:
-
- 1. Too small a sample size. If you know 6 people including two depressed
- liberals, one happy liberal, one bitter conservative, and two happy
- conservatives, it proves... nothing. If you've interviewed ten
- thousand people, and those proportions hold, you may have a point.
-
- 2. We've had a lot to be depressed about, with 12 years of Reagan and
- Bush. You might see some changes when Clinton takes over. Life will
- be improved, and we can be happy, while conservatives will be
- depressed.
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