Political definitions
The great difference between liberals and conservatives in this age is that liberals consume facts and eat up information at a great rate in a search for truth -- sometimes finding some, and becoming ever more frustrated at how little other people care -- while conservatives are certain they already know everything worth knowing and will listen only to words that confirm that belief. Don't bother conservatives with the facts.
On the other hand, some people who think they're conservatives really are liberals, and liberals are today's true conservatives.
Right wingers are conservatives gone crazy, radicals with an extra measure of greed, an overweening disdain for everybody who is not themselves and a certainty that they have the right to tell everybody else in the world how to live and what to believe.
Right wingers control the government of what should now be called the Corporate States of America.
James Clay Fuller, principal (and principle) author of this site, is a sort-of retired journalist who has worked in newspapers and magazines for more than 45 years. His day job for 30 years was at the Minneapolis StarTribune, where he was a business and economics reporter, features writer, and sometime music critic, as well as an editor in charge of several specialized sections of the newspaper and a number of investigative projects. He was nominated for Pulitzer Prizes in 1977 and 1992, and was the instigator and senior editor on a project that was nominated for a Pultizer in 1997. He has
written for many national publications.
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