I don't follow your typology at all. Is Communism a conservative ideology? Because it doesn't get much more Us vs. Them than orthodox Marxism, now, does it?
Although there is general dissatisfaction percolating through those entries, that's not what I'm talking about. It's the smug assertion that, if you happen to be gay, there is one and only one correct party affiliation and, if you disagree, it's not because you have different values, priorities, or aims. Rather, this can only be explained as a psychopathology. Whether that view is officially enshrined in the DNC party platform is irrelevant if it is pervasive among the membership--and I keep seeing indications that it is.
I simply can't think of anything more inimical to true liberalism than the idea that the one and only acceptable way for a person to act is determined by their inherent charactertistics. This isn't even a conservative idea, it's reactionary.
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Date: 2005-08-11 02:31 pm (UTC)Although there is general dissatisfaction percolating through those entries, that's not what I'm talking about. It's the smug assertion that, if you happen to be gay, there is one and only one correct party affiliation and, if you disagree, it's not because you have different values, priorities, or aims. Rather, this can only be explained as a psychopathology. Whether that view is officially enshrined in the DNC party platform is irrelevant if it is pervasive among the membership--and I keep seeing indications that it is.
I simply can't think of anything more inimical to true liberalism than the idea that the one and only acceptable way for a person to act is determined by their inherent charactertistics. This isn't even a conservative idea, it's reactionary.