[Dialogue] a proposal for corporate research and writing

[Colleen Smith]

Karl raised a very interesting and pertinent point in this whole 
discussion about liberals and conservatives
"If you want to move conservatives it seems to me that you need to talk 
private values.  They don't think their neighbors include the poor.
It is interesting - actually scandalous - that liberals worry only about 
public values, and conservatives worry only about private values.  
Neither is biblical.
Karl"
I think this would be a good place for this dialogue to start with 
articulation and clarification of  what our values are.  Liberals are 
charged with having no values or buffet values, conservatives are 
charged with being single issue narrow scope.  an example:  After 
Columbine, a Colorado license plate was proposed that had a columbine on 
it and "value life"   Wonderful everybody said, we can all go with that 
right? wrong.  Conservatives say I don't value life because I am pro 
choice and i say conservatives don't value life because they support war 
and the right for every one to carry a concealed weapon.  and Colorado 
is 49th in providing for neonatal care and for infants and children.   
and the license plate would support the "wrong" idea.   on and on
I disagree with Karl about neither public values or private values being 
Biblical.  If the values themselves are not Biblical, the behavior that 
points to values is.  There are plenty of  instances that describe both 
public and private behavior.  I think one of the differences is that 
most  conservatives focus on the old testament and most liberals focus 
on the new.
I  add my voice to Karl's and suggest that we not go with "facts" there 
are zillions of them out there.  this election, like the last one, is 
based on emotion, sound bites, and  gut reactions. (can we find other 
terms than "liberal" and "conservative"?

I value life,  believe that all life is sacred;  I also believe in free 
will;  that's a start.
Colleen Smith
I  became associated with ICA and OE in 1972,  served as a staff member  
until 1990.  I currently live in Denver.

-- 
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953