Its telling I've never given any thought to her political position at all but thinking about it objectively, of course she's conservative
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laughing at 'came out' because it's absurd and completely reasonable at the same time.
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Hence my scare quotes!

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Well in some milieus it may seem quite hard to admit..
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Yep. Weird on reflection that a mild-mannered Conservative is the devil incarnate to swathes of the left.
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But a foaming at the mouth revolutionary communist is a good person albeit a little over-exuberant.
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But I think that's changing. From recent essay of mine.pic.twitter.com/BJw2c2bFKG
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I'm not convinced conservative and liberal are opposites. I've become pretty (lower case) conservative in my dotage.
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That is deserving of some serious side-eye.
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@gfrancie Nah, she supports gender & LGBT equality & religious freedom & has put up with me for 22 years, so she's liberal where it matters -
That is something. Now to slowly lure her over to the rebellion.
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@gfrancie Seems to be the right that's rebelling! Left got too sure of itself. From recent essay of mine.pic.twitter.com/C0gV7mKJCA
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"moderates, liberals, centre, left, centre-right, far-left, far-right, extreme, conservative..." I prefer
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Not mutually exclusive. Still need to be able to talk about positions.
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Agree, but a 1-dimensional spectrum is generic/simplistic. And no one position is entirely 100% right or 100% wrong.
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There are many dimensions. Having names for them doesn't imply any one is sufficient on its own. What I said above.
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nothing instrically wrong with being a conservative. Lots of good ideas on the right as well as the left.
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nice. The Tory=evil types are no reasonable person's friend & are just another part of the problem.
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