(March 5, 2012 at 7:53 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(March 5, 2012 at 6:59 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Some of these statements also confuse "liberal" with "leftist". Liberals dont mind capitalism. Leftists dispise it.
What passes for "conservatives" in this country (more accurately, fascists by the standards of even recent American history and by the standards of the rest of the world) have been confusing "socialism" with everything to the left of arch-conservative for about 10 years now.
(March 5, 2012 at 7:20 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Conservapedia worships Ronald Reagan. Reagan said the heart of the conservative movement was Libertarianism.
Well...whatever...cant stand all three of them if you ask me.
Correction, Conservapedia worships the icon of Ronald Reagan, who was as real as the miracle-working godman Jesus.
The real Ronald Reagan raised taxes, cut and ran in Lebanon, met unconditionally with adversaries and was in some respects to the left of our current "liberal" president.
Exactly correct about Reagan. He had good media and good history re-writers. Reagan did say that about conservatism, but Im too lazy to look it up and source it for you :-)
I was alive and well during Reagan, I was going to highschool at the time. Quite frankly I have caught myself wishing a return of Reagan, as Reagan was much more left wing than Obama is.
