ext_50106 ([identity profile] kelloggs2066.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] the_gneech 2002-06-26 08:23 am (UTC)

}I suspect that I fall into the "right wing loonie"
}category you mentioned -- as I support individual
}accountability and am a supporter of business -- but I
}have a variety of views that don't seem to mesh well
}with a partisan categorization.

Well, if everyone who wants to see business expand and employ more and more people were a "right wing loonie", I think that would include a huge swath of the political spectrum. On the other hand, there are people who would define a "right wing loonie" that way, though, I think I would say such people fall under the opposite category.

I would define "right wing loonie" as closer to honest to goodness fascism of the style of actual dictators, Napoleon, Mullah Omar, Ayatollah Khomeini (sp?), Hussein, Stalin et al.

Timothy McVey was a "right wing loonie". If you define yourself as one, I think you're pulling my leg or your own. ;)

I guess what I'm trying to say, (and not very well) is that we need the left and right wing nuts to help us define the center course. As long as both sides are screaming warnings, we're doing okay.

I've been looking for something I wrote back last September in the aftermath of the attack. It's kind of frightening when both sides of the spectrum start to agree.

Ha! Found it. Will post under another thread.

Anyway, I don't think that people who actually take the time to think for themselves fall into a stereotype, so I wouldn't put yourself in any pigeonhole if I were you.

Scott

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