tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post8656134610588476130..comments2023-10-08T05:00:23.559-04:00Comments on Clarissa's Blog: Jesus As Reagan's SidekickClarissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-73216019478494824482011-05-15T09:16:27.934-04:002011-05-15T09:16:27.934-04:00Drat. I did a space-time slip-up. I should've ...Drat. I did a space-time slip-up. I should've said 'a die-hard fiscal liberal'. I sometimes forget that 'conservative' these days implies people who adopted the newer ideas of a free-market economy, and 'progressive/liberal' implies proponents of regulated, pro-tax-payer economies. In the India of my youth, the labels used be exactly opposite.Rimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04344200811838569151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-22149347393723560832011-05-15T09:12:21.587-04:002011-05-15T09:12:21.587-04:00Don't talk to me about Libertarian Christians ...Don't talk to me about Libertarian Christians who know nothing about either. I once mortally offended a very nice -- but obviously not very smart -- person by saying what I believe to be true: anyone who believes in the socioeconomic lessons of the gospel should be a politically radical, die-hard fiscal conservative, bringing a people's movement to the door of the corporate economy.<br /><br />The funniest part was that she assumed, because I was Indian, I must not know anything about Jesus. Thus she forgave my heretical transgression.Rimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04344200811838569151noreply@blogger.com