Got it in one! That movie came out just as I was trying to read the book, and it was like a tide that dragged me into the story. (And I never really escaped. *g*)
I'm going to rephrase this since I think it came off wrong.
I disagree. I think anthropological studies have established that no matter what we call ourselves, our views are primarily liberal ones. In fact, California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island are more liberal than Canada (except for the anti-gay props in California). It's the illusion that we are center-right that the right-wing has tried to create. If we were "center-right", why did they need Diebold to steal two elections? I think Bobby Kennedy Jr's extensive publication about Republican election theft shows that that was the case.
We have "liberalized" to a greater degree as the population has grown younger. We have our own culture certainly with its own distinctions that can't be called "left", "right" or "center" from any perspective but our own.
I think what exists politically and what is believed personally are two different things. Certainly, there's a gradation of depths of belief, too, to deal with. The US may be, in some areas, less liberal than in others but when the distinctions are made, there is a balance. Also, you and I may have very different opinions of what constitutes "liberal". Some of the least liberal people (every bit as doctrinaire and extreme as our far-right wackos) I've encountered have been Marxists. Just yesterday, I was reading an article written by an avowedly anti-US journalist who is a big EU fan. If he had said about any other culture, the things he wrote about the US (and I mean the people not the government), people would be calling for his head. He was actually talking about "making the good Americans come to Europe" and clearing out our continent. Not a liberal soul, that. lol
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I think it's Keith who chuckles when Matthews says that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCgmc32guso&eurl=http://lj-toys.com/?journalid=13559293&moduleid=12&preview=&auth_token=sessionless:1235570400:embedcontent&feature=player_embedded
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(also, totally OT new icon. *g*)
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Heathcliff and Cathy, right? Cool icon!
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Timothy Dalton should always play Bronte heroes.
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I disagree. I think anthropological studies have established that no matter what we call ourselves, our views are primarily liberal ones. In fact, California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island are more liberal than Canada (except for the anti-gay props in California). It's the illusion that we are center-right that the right-wing has tried to create. If we were "center-right", why did they need Diebold to steal two elections? I think Bobby Kennedy Jr's extensive publication about Republican election theft shows that that was the case.
We have "liberalized" to a greater degree as the population has grown younger. We have our own culture certainly with its own distinctions that can't be called "left", "right" or "center" from any perspective but our own.
Just mho.
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