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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: talk.politics.usa.conservative (Was: Re: RFD: talk.politics.patriot)
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- References: <id.US1W.YS3@ferranti.com> <BzqrD5.8JC@polaris.async.vt.edu> <1992Dec31.033011.3349@afit.af.mil>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:20:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.033011.3349@afit.af.mil> wbralick@afit.af.mil (Will Bralick) writes:
- > Did the Aussies think that Mrs. Thatcher was a Green?
-
- No, a big-L-Liberal.
-
- Though shutting down smokestack industries and coal mines is a pretty green
- thing to do. In the US, the conservation movement has recently been allied
- with the left, but this is an artificial side-effect of the two-party system.
- The progressive right (big business) and the progressive left (labor unions)
- are clearly allied against the conservationist right (Audubon, etc..) and
- the conservationist left (Greenpeace, etc).
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