> The label has no meaning anymore so I have to look at the policies
> themselves.
> Dan

I was a staunch conservative before I quit drinking. I always made certain
that my vodka stash would last the night until the booze shops opened the
next morning.

-Steve

"Dan McGown" <dmcgown@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:17WdnVO8YbkiiMDcRVn-tQ@adelphia.com...
>
> "> Dear Dan. I learn something new here most every day, usually not from
> what
>> is posted, but by double-checking what is posted. According to this bio
>> of Mussolini at http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_mussolini.html :
>>
>> "... Like his father, Benito became a fervent socialist. ..."
>
>
> Oh, sure, and calling the German version "National Socialist" makes
> Hitler a liberal? At any rate, the point that I was making was not
> whether Mussolini was a conservative, but rather that the label
> "conservative" has been applied to everything from tories to fascists and
> that the label conservative conveys no information whatever to me. I need
> to know what a person actually believes and not what label is put on him
> or her.
> For instance, in no modern usage of the word is W a conservative. His
> policies are anti-states-rights, pro-large-deficit and pro-big government
> and yet people who call themselves conservatives support him.
> The label has no meaning anymore so I have to look at the policies
> themselves.
> Dan

You're right of course, what political parties do seems to have little
relation to the concepts they profess. I think conservatism is supposed to
be about how to behave with respect to following the capitalism economic
theory, while liberalism is behavior governed by adhering to socialistic
economic theory. But I'm often full of shit, and this may be one of those
times...
-Fred