Comments on: Conspiratorial liberals

By: jameshigham

jameshigham — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:55:46 +0000

We righties are always harping, Dave. Still, a good read.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:16:03 +0000

To be honest, I try not to use those terms. They are a shorthand, and they are misleading. I think the political compass is a better way of doing it, but association with a particular world-view or set of ideas is better.

By: Winchester whisperer

Winchester whisperer — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:58:08 +0000

How do you define “left” and “right” these days?

By: dave

dave — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:31:31 +0000

Well, thankyou Aaron!

I don’t think the echo-chamber accusation stands up. The different people on LC – from Dave Osler to Chris Dillow – give the lie to that.

Anyway, hope you keep reading the quite liberal and slightly conspiratorial blog of Dave Cole

xD.

By: Aaron Heath

Aaron Heath — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:32:29 +0000

Hi Dave,

I’m delighted to have someone think my comments are worth reproducing and to have them on a blog like Liberal Conspiracy, so thank-you Sunny.

Of course your comments “are worth reproducing”. LC may have been dismissed – several times – as an echo-chamber for the “liberal elite”, but in my opinion, the platform has to be used to widen debate, bringing in many more voices from beyond the usual suspects.

By: douglas clark

douglas clark — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:30:33 +0000

Dave,

Well, if you hadn’t written that comment in that thread, I’d have tried to write the poor man’s version. But you did it far better than I would have done, and did it very succinctly.

Clarified – for me at least – what was an itch, about what was wrong with that thread. I thought it was a very good comment. And deserved it’s promotion.