The semantics are screwed up.

A true conservative wants government to stay out of controlling people's lives -
I agree with them. Real liberals want to regulate some things to REALLY protect
and really take care of the public. I agree with that.

I agree with socialists related to health care and education.

Politically I am completely independent.

You mistake what I am "bashing."

The difference between my "bashing" and the way the current Refucklicans bash is
that I don't make things up that aren't true while making some kind of attempt
at character assassination or exaggerating the importance of odd trivia to
distract from the real issues. No, you're wrong. I do agree with you. And I
don't want small government when it comes to protecting the public from
industrial vampires. I want strong regulations that actually protect the
well-being of all the people, while giving the people full freedom to be
themselves.

Michael Mooney


--- In PozHealth@yahoogroups.com, Brian Mailman <bmailman@...> wrote:
>
> Michael wrote:
> > I agree,
>
> No, I don't think you do, since you continue to misclassify. My point
> is that classing someone(s) that disagree with you as "the other" is
> simply the same dynamic as the conservatives you are bashing employ and
> you should know which is which, anyway.
>
> > however, my "conservative-bashing" includes wolves-in-sheeps-clothing
> > like Henry Waxman, who never say a paternalistic law to control your
> > behavior because you're-too-stupid-to-do-it-yourself that he didn't
> > champion.
>
> Which is a trad "liberal" position. To have an agency or bureau
> control, (e.g., expanded governmental control) things that individuals
> in a Jeffersonian model can and should control for themselves.
>
> > Waxman's Answers Drugs/steroids in sports! - Ban steroids from all
> > uses. Michael Jackson dies of painkillers. -Ban painkillers. Vitamins
> > compete with drugs, according to FDA in the federal register. -Make
> > vitamins into prescription-only items.
>
> Those are not trad conservative positions, as I said. You're describing
> aspects of the nanny state. What the conservatives wish is a smaller
> government with less regulation (Bush, Rove, and Co. are an extreme
> aberration). As you seem to do.
>
> B/
>