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In reply to the discussion: I'm from the south. [View all]rrneck
(17,671 posts)They're human values. I know tons of generous and tolerant conservatives. Unfortunately, when we assume basic human values are the sole province of our ideology we prepare the ground for the seeds of bigotry.
For my part, the terms liberal and conservative refer to rates of cultural change. Liberals want more of it, conservatives less. The hard part about being a liberal is that we are constantly working ourselves out of a job. We run out and fix a bunch of stuff then we have to find something else to fix.
Injustice is always a problem. But you're right about finding a circle of like minded friends that can provide a reality check. Places like DU are interesting but they are not reality. This a good place to float abstracted ideas but nobody really knows each other here. I'm trained as an artist, technically a landscape painter. There are a lot of ways to understand the landscape. You can draw it, you can measure it, you can talk about it, and you can own it. But the best way to understand the landscape is to walk on it. Cultures are the same way, so you're exactly right about real world scenarios.
This has been an interesting thread in many ways. I've seen some surprises that weren't really surprises at all and had some interesting conversations with people like yourself who challenged me to step back and think. In my book that's what life's all about.