Silk is Calde!

Daniel Slatkin · 05 Nov 2008, 20:50 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: palundrium at gmail.com (Daniel Slatkin)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:50:58 -0800
Subject: (urth) Silk is Calde!
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What really irks me is when people vote one way or another simply
because they belong to the party. I saw somebody passing around a
flyer from the California Republican Party. It was a "voting guide"
for Republicans to the propositions, what to vote yes on, what to vote
no on, and with no reason as to why.

Daniel

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Matthew Keeley
<matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
>
>> One things for sure, (and no offense to you in particular Matt)
>> we need to stop labeling ourselves as Conservative or Liberal.
>> We as a people have so much common ground, we shouldn't let extremists get away with polarizing WE into US & THEM.  They pull us away from our commonality.
>>
>> Anyone, with ANY sense, is conservative about some things and liberal about others.
>
> I think we're in agreement here - I'm generally fairly "conservative",
> but I support quite a few "liberal" policies. I'm certainly not a
> proponent of "my party, right or wrong". It's why I try and read
> writers and thinker from both ends of the political spectrum - I feel
> you end up closer to the truth. And last I checked, truth was
> non-partisan.
>
> I do tend to think that American politics as practiced today is
> problematic: There are only two viable parties, so it becomes very
> easy to split the country into red and blue, us and them, conservative
> and liberal, etc.
>
> -Matt
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