"Harry Krause" wrote in message



I would posit that most major city newspapers are moderate on their
editorial pages. You're on the far right,


This is a common misunderstanding among conservatives. Today's
conservatives have moved even farther to the right since Reagan's

Crap. This is the myth that the Dems love to perpetrate - that the entire
Republican party is driven by extreme conservative religious zealots. The
fact is that today's repubs are not nearly as far right as conservatives of
the 50s and 60s, and the so-called "Christian Right" is small in number and
does not enjoy nearly the influence that it started to build 20 years ago.
It is the Dems who have moved out to the fringe left, but still consider
themselves mainstream moderate. Compare the government fingers in your life
today with those of Truman's time to see just how far you've run to the
edge. But you still think you're normal, so the whole world looks like
they're off to the right from you.



I don't find the descriptor liberal to be a pejorative, by the way. But
to be called a conservative by today's definition of that word carries a
lot of negative baggabe...

Among your circle, I imagine it would.