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Subject: Re: Re: Roadblocks
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Date: Wed, 4-Jul-84 15:29:48 EDT
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Maybe this really belongs to net.politics (or net.nlang), but:

> The term 'conservative' used to mean someone who wished to restrain
> the powers of government.  Woods' use of the word 'BUT' shows how
> far the term 'conservative' has drifted from its original meaning.
> As the actions of so-called conservatives in government (e.g., our
> president) show, conservatives now LOVE powerful, intrusive
> governments.

> 	a member of a truely conservative organization, the ALCU

The dictionary we have at the office, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate,
defines "conservatism" as:

	...2 a: disposition in politics to preserve what is established
	b: a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability,
	stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual
	development to abrupt change 3: the tendency to prefer an existing
	or traditional situation to change

which can either mean restraining the power of government (if it is felt that
that power is being used to distrupt established institutions, oppose
tradition and social stability, and encourage abrupt change) or extending
the power of government (if it is felt that that power can be used to
bolster established institutions, uphold tradition and social stability, and
limit change).

	Guy Harris
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