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> This confuses conservative with not being open to changing ones ideas.
> But there are plenty of radical leftists who remain radical leftists into
> old age. Are they conservatives? Others change their views in old age and
> become conservative. I guess this makes them liberals!
> The whole idea of dividing the world into liberals and conservatives
> is a bit nutty or at least hopelessly imprecise. Is Justin Raimondo
> conservative or liberal. Obama is supposedly a liberal but on foreign policy
> issues such as Afghanistan he is more hawkish than Bush was.
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> Cheers, k hanly
>
I would second the notion that the terms liberal vs conservative are hopelessly imprecise, but it seems nearly all political terminology is these days.
I for one have attempted to not call right-wing reactionaries "conservatives" because they seem to not be interested in conserving anything. Not oil, farm land, undeveloped land, or anything else. Why call that "conservative"?