In a message dated 7/29/2004 3:16:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, JulieReneB@xxxxxxx writes: strong right-wing contingency on Theoria. Discussion tend to evolve between groups who reduce all issues to moral questions and groups who reduce issues only to question of Realpolitik and expediency. In my case, I'm in favor of total war against Islamists. However in domestic policy I am practically a socialist. It makes sense to me that if we are to "win" this cultural conflict, "our side" has to offer the very best to its citizens, not just empty Ayn Rand and numbing fundie Christianity. Otherwise what are we fighting to protect? I also have a poet-acquaintance who is a doctrinaire Marx-reading communist. She is pro-war because Al Qaeda is an enemy of the proletariat. It is amusing and weird, as Paul Stone noted, to have people mistake one's intentions. Even more so to have people who espouse multicultural tolerance, etc., to label one a rightwinger because one believes a certain aspect of Bush policy may have merits. Talk about stereotyping and political profiling. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html