Quiz
What kind of person says this (check the second comment):
I’m not a liberal! The world is bigger than the conservative-liberal spectrum would suggest–and much bigger than, as it now is in the US, the spectrum of crypto-fascist on one end to moderates with tepid liberal leanings on the other!
My answer: a liberal.
I would vote for pinhead.
C. S. P. Schofield (c1cf21) — 9/2/2006 @ 3:22 pmA moonbat.
Xrlq (1fd2ef) — 9/2/2006 @ 8:00 pmA liberal.
OHNOES (295512) — 9/2/2006 @ 8:48 pmA commie.
Angry Clam (c7a072) — 9/2/2006 @ 10:10 pmYou’re using “liberal” as a synonym for “leftist”?
Serenity Now (b08c67) — 9/2/2006 @ 10:29 pm/hand wave
“We’re not the liberals you’re looking for…”
Trickish Knave (95aa7c) — 9/2/2006 @ 11:52 pmThere’s a difference these days?
OHNOES (295512) — 9/3/2006 @ 1:01 amA Trotskyite with no illusions about the illusory nature of American working classes sympathies.
Pat Patterson (5b3946) — 9/3/2006 @ 4:49 amWhat you said.
nk (b57bfb) — 9/3/2006 @ 5:43 amA professional journalist.
Scott Crawford (38a6ee) — 9/3/2006 @ 10:12 amA tenured member of the Psychology Department at Harvard.
Federal Dog (9afd6c) — 9/3/2006 @ 10:53 amA Seattlite.
Al (2e2489) — 9/3/2006 @ 2:01 pmHmm. I think he’s right that the conservative-liberal spectrum doesn’t describe nearly as much as people often appear to think it does; and I think he’s right that what we consider to be far left would be considered mildly left-of-center in many other countries. (Of course, what we consider to be far right would also be considered only mildly right-of-center in many other countries, a fact which is often forgotten with such polemics).
[Well, exactly. If I complained that the spectrum here was radical leftists on one end, and moderates with conservative leanings on the other . . . why, you might think I’m I conservative — even if I denied it! — P]
But then again: i’m a liberal, so maybe patterico’s characterization is valid. 🙂
aphrael (e7c761) — 9/3/2006 @ 10:09 pm