Re: 'dippy hippy left-wingers'

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 07:06:43 MDT


Dear Spike,

>Does that meme kinda work? Both political extremes come in from the
>wings, arriving at similar conclusions for different reasons. The
>liberarian from the left wants the government to keep its oppressive
>hands off her body and her drugs. The libertarian from the right want
>the government to keep its greedy hands off her money and her property.

I don't think that it's very useful to group people politically in
terms of 'left' or 'right'. You'll find too many exceptions and the
result would likely alienate people. Perhaps 40 years ago it made more
sense to think 'left', 'right', but not these years.

>One seldom starts out a libertarian.

I think I was born an anarchist :-)

Amara

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