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12559 Re: Guns and Religion...and cars
   frickin' spider huggin' thing pretty much torched any notion of center...
DigSpace   ALEA   29 Jan 2013
1:12 AM
12557 Re: Not often far left, not often far right (edited with PS)
   [quote]Am I wrong about that?[/quote] I have a great disdain for bo...
Down And Out Man   ALEA   28 Jan 2013
10:06 PM

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Re: Guns and Religion...and cars

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Mon, 28 Jan 13 9:46 PM
Msg. 12556 of 54959
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Hi D&O,

I missed the duck thing. Apologies.

Re the Republican Party. I don't think I commented on your voting record. Just your principles, which tend to start with a traditional right of centre lean. Not the absolutist position of the far right which controls the Republican Party.

I think a right of centre lean is often reasonable. I am not sure why you prize being seen to be the centre. But I think the centre-right is also sometimes wrong. It was wrong about the effect of qe on inflation in the recent crisis, for instance.

As a general rule, I think you are a status quo conservative with a preference for gradualism.

Am I wrong about that?

Re guns - the status quo is a disaster. A Burkeian conservative gradualist approach does not do enough to solve the problem.