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Posted: 05/10/2012 06:52 PM
Understanding the Conservative Mind
I'm often treated to the spectacle of someone on the left revealing their thoughts on the nature of conservatives and why they do what they do. Very often, they show just how much they've been influenced by sensational fiction by ascribing various villainous cliches to the motives of their ideological opponents. I guess I have a unique perspective. Having once been what one might call "on the left", and then having been a conservative, and now finding myself disagreeing with everything on the traditional left-right spectrum, I can at least come away with an understanding as to why my ideological opponents think what they think. Few seem to possess this insight.
I think the left-right spectrum is misleading. I prefer a freedom-statism spectrum, myself, as both aspects of the ...Read More
