Reply #19: well, the other side is a very fixed set of narrow values

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I have no problem calling them anything, and a few things that might even get me tombstoned here.

Mostly, conservatives today are about removing individual freedoms and protections and giving unlimited freedoms and protections to corporations and big business. They have some very narrow philosophiesin this regard which can be summed up as, "me, me, me, and nobody but me".

Add to that they're righteous about not having to pay taxes, about not being associated with the "charity", and about blindly following their leader just so long as they or their children don't have to die in a foreign war and so long as they can write off their Hummers and afford to put gas into it to drive it to work every day with reduced emmissions standards, and just so long as they won't have to pay any taxes to keep government functioning at all if they can help it.

It's easy, a liberal is everything they ain't.