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[amqu]

Liberal and conservative can be misleading labels. I know many people who are liberal and conservative at the same time. Or at least hold to some ideas that are often held by liberals and other ideas that are often held by conservatives

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[qos]

Just wanted to let you know I read this.

I was a bit surprised to read that you felt that conservatives understand liberals better and that conservatives think that liberals are wrong but liberals think conservatives are evil. My own experience is that conservatives tend to condemn liberal policies in faith-based terms that judge liberals to be in opposition to God's will, which is equated with evil, and that they think liberals don't care about the state of society in general.

Not to say that some liberals don't also argue from a faith-based perspective and call conservatives evil, but my personal experience is more the other way around.

Obviously, we tend to hang out in different circles. ;-)

You might be interested in reading Athenian_Abroad's latest post. He says pretty much the same thing as you do about liberals not understanding -- or pretending to not understand -- the conservative perspective about the social impacts

Religious Studies Graduate Students ... ;)

[amqu]

I was a bit surprised to read that you felt that conservatives understand liberals better and that conservatives think that liberals are wrong but liberals think conservatives are evil. My own experience is that conservatives tend to condemn liberal policies in faith-based terms that judge liberals to be in opposition to God's will, which is equated with evil, and that they think liberals don't care about the state of society in general.

Not to say that some liberals don't also argue from a faith-based perspective and call conservatives evil, but my personal experience is more the other way around.

I believe you're way overthinking this. It doesn't have anything to do with religion. Substitute "bad" for "evil." Conservatives think liberals will fall for any damn fool idea, bless their hearts, and that's why they believe the most outrageous stuff. Liberals think conservatives believe what they do because they're mean and narrow minded and don't care if other people suffer.

[amqu]

I forgot to add in my previous response, I have a different view of why liberals believe what they do. It has to do with their continually attempting to perfect society (an impossible task IMO).

Thanks for the link to athenian_abroad. I went over and read his post which I found very interesting.