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Subject: Re: Liberals vs. Conservatives - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 23-Oct-83 20:39:59 EDT
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uicsl!pollack    Oct 23 17:29:00 1983

Good flame!. I would point out, however, that this type of negative
media portrayal does not only apply to conservatives. Feminists and
environmentalists are also portrayed negatively.  

For example, although there are lots of good-looking, intelligent
heterosexual feminists, the only ones brought forth by the media all
act like Bella Abzug.

For example, one time I was watching Johnny Carson introduce "an
environmentalist." As the slightly built and extremely effeminate man
talked about saving the whooping crane from extinction by artificial
insemination, Carson cracked jokes about beastiality and insinuated
that something was not right about the sexual preferences of "our
environmentalist!"

Your flame reminds me of something I've wanted to flame about, which is
the "consistent idealogy" idea. Why does one need a consistent ideology
of either "liberal or conservative" or "capitalist or socialist"?

For example, Richard Viguerie has said that the abortion issue is the
introductory issue for conservatism. "If a person thinks that abortion
is murder," Viguerie (approximately) said, "we can convince them that
the whole liberal program is wrong and that our program of a strong
defense against communism, feminism and homosexuality is right."

For example, I hate the colonial foreign policy of our country, whereby
we seek, through multinational corporations and client regimes, to
control the raw materials of other nations and use their citizens as
cheap labor. But I still believe in individual enterprise and
competition, and that anarchal capitalism is the best model for
development and freedom.  If Nicaragua were allowed to compete on the
world market for coffee and bananas, and capitalized and mechanized its
production, I'm sure it would outcompete the slave labor in Honduras,
El Salvador, Guatemala, and Ecuador.  Why does a socialist friend want
to convince me that economic imperialism is a by-product of capitalism,
that world monopolization and massive exploitation of all workers is
the "goal" of capitalism?

And now Reagan wants to send out "Capitalist Missionaries!"

When does the brainwashing stop?


Jordan Pollack