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Piltdown
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 12/20/2001 : 15:02:04
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This is a fascinating exposition of Buchanan's worldview. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/18/23938.html
He is extremely conservative, even reactionary, on social issues. He agrees with the religious right on these issues, but, unlike most RR'ers, he is a Catholic traditionalist rather than an evangelical fundamentalist. His views on national sovereignty and immigration border on racism by any standard.
Yet, he opposes sanctions against Iraq, denounces globalization in terms that would gladden the hearts of leftists, and is deeply suspicious of NATO and NATO expansion. He represents a revitalized form of populist isolationism. This puts him in direct opposition to big business conservatives like the Bushes.
What this signifies, of course, is yet more proof of the inadequacy of the left-right continuum in defining politics. It may also mean that these terms find their real meaning in social and cultural issues, rather than in foreign policy.
Abducting UFOs and conspiring against conspiracy theorists since 1980.
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
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 Posted - 12/20/2001 : 19:45:46 [Permalink]
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Nah, it's not all that hard. All I have to do is find out what Buchanan thinks about something, and I know immediately that the converse is the correct position!
-- Donnie B.
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