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[leftwinger]

However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's

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[gwgtrunks]

Now, if only the rest of the government would realize what this Mr. Goldwater has, things just might turn for the better.

[leftwinger]

Ironically, it was said many years ago. Goldwater died in 1998, and was once Republican candidate for President...in 1964! Just goes to show how long this fight with religious conservatism has been going.

[gwgtrunks]

Also shows my ignorance of politics ;).

[irn]

Barry Goldwater, holy shit! Before I read the quote, I saw the source, and I thought to myself: Josh is moderate, right? (:

[leftwinger]

I suppose politics makes strange bedfellows. Goldwater was a truly classic conservative, very much a libertarian. By the end of his life, he was a pariah within the Republican Party, supporting such crazy notions as leaving President Clinton alone for Whitewater and Monica, and getting rid of don't ask/don't tell.

I suppose I should admit that I've been having some leanings in the libertarian direction; the older I get, and the more freedoms I can exercise, the less interested I am in having somebody else dictate what I can and cannot do. I obviously support the Democrats and find myself a "liberal," insofar as we stand shoulder to shoulder against the perverse injection of evangelicalism into politics, but I'm not so convinced that once the Democrats get back to writing laws, they're going to be much better. I guess I'm just being careful what I wish for.

[cobalt999]

It seems that many of my politically-minded accomplices lean libertarian from either the left or right.

My statist tendencies feel so often left out in the cold.

[leftwinger]

You witness Federal bureaucracy in person on a regular basis, and you become confident that those who are running the country couldn't regulate their way out of a wet paper bag. Maybe that's why we vote to send them far, far away.

[homais]

Funky piece of synchronicity: I was just reading an article in the Atlantic Monthly about Rehnquist (and his role-model, Goldwater) that mentioned that neither man was terribly keen on religion in politics. It's an older kind of conservatism, I suppose.

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[falcon13]