Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, SA wrote:
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>>
>> By the way, I sort of accepted the premise of this post because it
>> led to an interesting train of thought. But actually I don't think
>> the above is true at all. Why is the opposite of conservative
>> Obama-style liberalism?
>
> It isn't. I'm clearly not getting across. My whole point is that
> about the term "conservative" is that in a spectrum of sense it covers
> everything on the right from the most radical to the most centrist.
> They all call themselves conservatives, although they all mean it in
> different senses. There is a spectrum of continuous overlap.
>
> And the word liberal does not cover the same span on the left. The
> most radical elements on the left would never use that term to
> describe themselves, not in any sense at all.
>
> Michael
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