Speaking of Stephen Colbert or Arnold Schwarzenegger, there ought to be a third party. A partisan blue is supposed to be socially progressive and secular but fiscally lavish; a red socially conservative and pious but financially prudent. Yet I'm sure many of us are morally liberal and freethinking but at the same time monetarily sound
A variety of maps of the Red-Blue divide in the USA. The Libertarian party is supposed to be socially progressive and fiscally conservative. There are also anarchist, minarchist, and anarcho-syndaclist communist parties out there, too. But, they have little to do with words. Let's see how to make this a words thread instead of a crypto-political one? How about: passive-aggressive personality disorder?
zm, it is a word thread, and apparenty you supplied it in your first sentence. However, the Opinion Editor of our local Fourth Estate calls himself a Libertarian, but he leans to the right in most all respects, including social issuesThis message has been edited. Last edited by: dalehileman,
a red socially conservative and pious but financially prudent
Join me in my quest to establish a Party Purple
Perhaps purple could stand for what red purports to stand for: where "socially conservative" = minding your own business about other people's private affairs; where "pious" = observant of the rites and traditions of the American constitutional democracy where "fiscally conservative" = balancing the budget instead of 19th-c. laissez-faire policies where industrial goods are produced by slave children, mortgages are foreclosing, and businessmen are parachuting out of collapsing corporations.
