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To: Arizona Carolyn
I was listening to Neal Boortz for a while this afternoon, he read a survery result that indicates onlu 8.8% of the population is conservative, 14% is liberal and 32% consider themselves libertarians.

I heard that too. He also said something like 30% conisder themselves "centrists" and 7% or something like that are authoritarians/socialists. I think you can lump the socialists, liberals and moderates together. The moderates want a mild version of what the liberals want and the liberals want a mild version of what the communists want, so they are all going in the same direction. I don't know if there can be a fusion of social conservatives and libertarians. Some libertarians have an unrealistic view of foreign policy -- isolationism that is probably as unrealistic as the neocons' "nation building." Some social conservatives cannot accept that the war on drugs has been as big a disaster as the drug culture itself. Both liberals and many conservatives are behind the war on drugs because they find it useful to militarize the police. Some libertarians will not compromise if the war on drugs is moderated and some things are legalized and some things remain illegal.

Conservatives and libertarians had better learn to cooperate or they might as well accept that Marxists will be running the country in a few years. A lot of leftists will reluctantly vote for President Hillary even though she is not socialist enough for them. That should give one pause.

245 posted on 11/24/2006 6:27:29 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Wilhelm Tell
I get the same impression, without the libertarians conservatives are so outnumbered it's not even a contest. I'll admit it gives me more than a little pause...

we all need to remember one thing: A bird can't fly with just one wing, needs two wings.... we should all take that into mind and learn to get along so we don't end up with Marxists running things.

246 posted on 11/24/2006 6:33:39 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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