If you want to take my guns away from me, and you're all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you're for the poor, you're a liberal. If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you're a conservative. What could be simpler?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Political labels like liberal and conservative are oversimplified and based on contradictory values.
- In plain terms
- Politics is too complex to be just liberal or conservative.
- What can you take from it?
- Avoid simplistic political labels.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Are political labels useful?
- What are your true values?
Another view
Labels can still be useful for quick political alignment.
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