Posted: 2003-03-10 07:01am
No earth-shattering political differences between me and my friends, or with our acquaintances either. My whole family is more or less conservative (Surprised yet? 
) and has a tendency to vote for the main right wing party here. We'd be squarely in the ultra-left (or near there) on the regular US political chart...
I'm like Coyote in that I do not support any certain position because it's the party line, I want reasons for why or why not it would work, and if it's sensible, it gets my support. That's what I call a moderate approach.
Too bad that in international debates, there tends to be a large number of Americans involved, which tends to shift the definitions used to the American ones, where liberal is a curse-word and moderate is almost as bad. One American friend of mine makes a very sharp distinction between US liberals (the ultra-left type, who he has no use for) and non-US liberals (who he does agree with at least some of the time, though he also disagrees with them a lot).
Edi
) and has a tendency to vote for the main right wing party here. We'd be squarely in the ultra-left (or near there) on the regular US political chart...I'm like Coyote in that I do not support any certain position because it's the party line, I want reasons for why or why not it would work, and if it's sensible, it gets my support. That's what I call a moderate approach.
Too bad that in international debates, there tends to be a large number of Americans involved, which tends to shift the definitions used to the American ones, where liberal is a curse-word and moderate is almost as bad. One American friend of mine makes a very sharp distinction between US liberals (the ultra-left type, who he has no use for) and non-US liberals (who he does agree with at least some of the time, though he also disagrees with them a lot).
Edi
