"...bad news for US conservatives, and good news for the regular folk and the planet..."

Which, we are to assume, means "Good people and life on planet Earth as we know it VERSUS conservatives".

I think it's pretty obvious where this one is going.

Having said that, MAV and I really appreciate all of this social activisim having gravitated, for the most part, into appropriate threads where as it had previously seemed to permieate nearly every discussion on the Mudcat, and any hint of deviation from the "PC" manifesto anywhere was sure to invite a barrage of vitriol and disdain from the majority.
There seems to be a renewed spirit of respect, tolerance, and civility on the regular "Music" threads these days, and we both enjoy and appreciate that!

Definitions do mean a lot, to be sure. I wonder if anyone stopped to inquire of those young, idealistic Frosh just what theirs was of "Conservatisim" vs. "Liberalisim"?
Do we suppose that those definitions (or ignorance thereof) might have anything to do with the endoctrination recieved within the National system of Public Government factory enforced-monopoly (at least for the socioeconomically disadvantaged, that is; the Politicians who make the rules for us little folk DO have an educational option for their children, and typically excersize it)"Schools"?

Or could the constant drivel of agenda - filtered spin emi8nating from Komrades Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, or the other flagrantly biased "talking heads" on the TV kids are exposed to at home have anything to do with it?
Even the "Entertainment" Industry is careful to stir a heaping measure of PC "values" and role-modeling into their glitzy "product" for youthful consumption.
Conservative is NOT at all "cool", is it?
If you can find a "Conservative" kid in one of America's public Endoctrination Centers who knows what that means and has the gutz to admit it, I would be surprised if he or she has many friends there... Except maybe in Nebraska, Georgia, or other "flyover" country.

Karl Marx apparantly suggested some time ago that in order for Socializim to subjegate the "free" world, particularly Europe and America, that our educational, informational, and entertainment institutions must be infiltrated and control of them gradually seized. That being accomplished, the rest of the culture, it's government and institutions, would fall to the reaping sicle and bend to the relentless hammer of Communisim within two or three generations.

Darned if the old boy wasn't on to something! It seems to have worked pretty much as he anticipated that it would.

OK; here's the "bad news" for you "progressives" out there who want us to turn in our guns, surrender our Bibles and kiss your Communist butts for permisssion to leave town and visit our Families on occasion (like they do in China); Some of us "Conservatives" are "on to" Marx, Lennin, Stalin, and Yoo-All, too!

How have Komrade Dan's ratings and advertizing clients' offers been doing lately? ABC? CNN? And let's not forget your ever-loyal font of liberal propoganda, the New York Times?
My, my; it seems that quite a number of "good folks" in America have discovered "alternative" information sources, like FOX News, Rush Limbaugh, Free Republic... the internet! How do their ratings compare? Care to check, anybody?

This latest attempt by the "beautiful people" to villify President "W" and tack the ENRON scandal on him and Cheney; it ain't sticking, fellas! There is some evidence that it might even be ready to "backfire" in the faces of Tom Daschele, Dick Gepardt, and Ice-Queen Hillary. Wage-earning, tax-paying, law-abiding Americans are starting to recognize bullhooey when they smell it, and it's not selling nearly as well as it used to.

The "Sheeople" are catching on, Komrades... and the flock is getting restless!
Even your loyal Labor-Union Membership showed signs of cracking. We have it on good authority that a lot of Union Members are also NRA Members, and when "crunch time" came in Nov. of 2K, a lot of them quietly chose "W" and Freedom over the "approved" status-quo!

Truth, Knowledge, Faith and Freedom are among Socializim's worst nightmares - and there are quite a few of us left out here in the boonines who are doing everything we can to propigate an epidemic of them!

Stay tuned; it's apt to be interesting.