Some would call the current U.S. government a radical government acting on radical ideas such as the risk-taking idea of reforming social security and Bush's position on education. Personally, I think overall conservatives are really attempting to preserve the liberal ideas that America was founded on. Whatever happened to reducing government and increasing American's ability to make their own choices? If you look at the issues, I think most Americans would actually agree with about 50% of the positions on both sides. Yet each person seems to focus on those issues that are most important to them and go with the side that supports that position or stay with a party out of loyalty and history. The media attaches negative terms to the far-right and the far-left when in fact, most Americans fall in the middle. The Libertarian party looks better and better everyday in comparison.


>>There are numerous dopey ideas espoused by liberals and quietly dropped when they fail. Communes, socialism, theoretical anarchy and rich western terrorism were all favorites of liberal ideology.
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>These are radical ideas. The conservative ideas that I mentioned were mainstream.