My thoughts on Appropriationgate*

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*Since all major LJ kerfuffles acquire a hackneyed name, let's at least assign it now.

As I mentioned I'm very busy, too busy to wade into this debate (if it can even be dignified by that term now) and too put off by a prior foray into it and the treatment of many of my friends to want to do so in any depth. But I will offer up one thought it has given me:

"One way in which a liberal may be disillusioned or driven to conservatism is criticism that his or her view is not liberal enough from people more concerned with enhancing their liberal credentials than meaningfully discussing the issue at hand."

Discuss.

Comments

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British Conservatives tend to be held together by self-interest, and although there are arguments and occasional knifings in the back (one M Thatcher springs to mind), I think there is a case to be made that they are more cohesive than the Left, because less bound by actual ideology and its interpretations.

Although nominally mostly Christian, this is a very secular nation. Thank God.