Calm down there
Woah, woah. I didn't intend to start any arguments.
HarryT: In the context of U.S. politics, Liberal and Conservative are opposite of their meanings in the UK. They're both blanket terms really though.
Social conservatives believe that the government should support things like traditional marriage and oppose things like gay marriage, abortion, raunchy television. Economic conservatives believe in the free market, meritocracy, and oppose government support programs like nationalized health care and welfare. Foreign Policy conservatives support putting American interests first, strong national defense, and support the U.N. as a tool for diplomacy, but don't think the U.S. should defer to it.
Social liberals support gay marriage, abortion rights, non-traditional values, quotas for minorities, etc. Economic liberals favor safety nets such as welfare, nationalized health care, usually increased taxes on the rich, and strict regulation of business. Foreign Policy Liberals support multilateralism, U.S. adherence to U.N. sanctioned international law, etc.
No one individual is really an ideologue. I've met people who are Social liberals but Foreign Policy Conservatives.
As for what a liberal magazine is, most of the political magazines on Amazon are described as liberal in their description. I'm not being subjective here. I just thing it is odd that Amazon didn't manage to get something like Pat Buchanan's magazine, The American Conservative.
Nate the great: All politicians do the "it's wrong if our opponents did it, but perfectly okay and wonderful if my friends did it" thing. That's why conservatives ranted and raved over Clinton's infidelity, but stood quiet when it was revealed that Gingrich was doing the same or later when Swarzenegger (spelling?) had to apologize for sexually harassing all those women or when that one guy was found to have made sexual advances on his underage pages or when Bill O'Reilly got caught on tape sexually harassing his producer. There are a million examples from both sides of this issue. I didn't intend to start a great political debate on this forum. I am actually and independent and I like to read both liberal and conservative magazines. I like to look at all sides of the issues.
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