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- From: gsmith@clio.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith)
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- Subject: Re: A Strand of Bigotry
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.173324.11773@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:33:24 GMT
- References: <mattm-171192134108@mcmelmon.apple.com> <1992Nov18.175112.18229@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <mattm-181192110253@mcmelmon.apple.com>
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- In article <mattm-181192110253@mcmelmon.apple.com> mattm@apple.com
- (Matthew Melmon) writes:
-
- >If you mean my blurb was of the conservative point of view, perhaps
- >you are correct.
-
- Your blurb seems to me to be the mark's point of view.
-
- >'Conservatives' favor a strong enforcement of laws by government.
- >That much is true. Conservatives generally prefer fewer laws to more,
- >however.
-
- If by 'conservative' you mean the people who actually run for office,
- this just isn't true any more. It is a con game for suckers. They
- *say* they are for getting the government off our backs, and fiscal
- responsibility, and all kinds of things. They *do* just the opposite.
-
- >I suspect you are trying to cast the 'conservative' and
- >'fundamentalist' positions as one in the same. This, however, is more
- >a recent phenomena than a historical one.
-
- It's been a long time since Goldwater, a longer time since Taft.
- I'm talking about realities.
-
- --
- Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University
- gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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