Joined: 8 Mar 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 12,997 Location: Southeast U.S.A.
11 Dec 2016, 12:34 pm
My old man was a leftist and drove me to be a hard-hearted evil conservative. It was all the preaching about redistribution of wealth and the need to ban or regulate the hell out of anything he didnt like. Other things but those were the two biggest.
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Joined: 5 Apr 2007 Age: 41 Gender: Male Posts: 11,038 Location: London
13 Dec 2016, 5:58 pm
Authoritarianism is on the left an right.
The popular regessiveness is an example of authoritarianism.
Liberal has an original meaning which is quite different from how it is used in the US
Conservative is a relative term. It depends what you are trying conserve. You could technically have a conservative liberal such as a classical liberal