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Mary Anne — (archived)

Liberals tend to believe if you offer people a level playing field, everyone is better off because everyone has an opportunity to achieve.

Conservatives tend to believe (I think) that the status quo should be maintained for the sake of stability, which means that the level playing field doesn't work for them.

I don't know what neocons believe.

I'll have to find it, but yesterday I found numbers about a rise in the number of Americans living in poverty. Working poor is still poor. Developments that benefit stockholders tend not to trickle down to someone working at Walmart or McDonald's.

Re: pessimism: If your premise is true, that would make Benjamin Franklin a liberal. He said that he preferred to be a pessimist, because an optimist is often disappointed, whereas a pessimist is sometimes pleasantly surprised. One can still hope for the best and work for the best while planning for the worst. If we expect the best, well.... we wind up with Enron (we expected people to honor their business obligations), we wind up with looting instead of flower-throwing in Baghdad (we expected people to behave like the French did after D-Day), and we wind up with people dead of dehydration and drowning.

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