LDW'S APOLITICAL POLITICAL CREDO, PART THE FIRST

[ldwheeler]

For more than 20 years now, I've called myself a political moderate. It's a term that's not all that helpfully descriptive, bespeaking little than an aversion to extremes in policy and approach. I've also called myself an independent, which suits me better, as an expression that my views can't be pigeonholed and sanded down to fit within the

Comments

[joecoustic]

Interesting to read. You are not easy to categorize - I like that quality in my friends :).

[phillip2637]

"I mistrust both the public and the private sector, in roughly equal amounts."

I like that. There's a news site I frequent where my biographical notes contain the line, "I tend to trust people...until they form into groups." It's possibly based on a similar feeling.

I also have your item #10 strongly in mind when politicians talk. It's only a little over a decade since people died in an Ontario town from contaminated water, a situation that was partly attributed to reduced inspection.

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[maverick_weirdo]

when people complain about "activist judiciary,"

Whenever I hear complaint's like this I want to ask the person who said it, "What is the role of the judiciary?"

According to my 8th grade Social Studies course, the roles of the 3 branches of government are:

Legislature: Write the laws
Executive: Enforce the laws
Judiciary: Interpret the laws

[ldwheeler]

Santorum in general, I don't think much of. I find the impulse to codify one's own religious beliefs as the law of a pluralistic nation to be dangerous, no matter what the religion

[filkferengi]

I've looked at trust from both sides now,
Public and private; still, somehow
I'd rather go a-filking now,
I don't trust either one at all.

:)