Re: Mexican Invaders Want to Remind Us About Themselves

<truthteller@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote.
>
> You clearly have no idea of what the word "conservative" means.
>

On the contrary.  'Conservative' has one basic meaning (one who wishes to 
conserve) but any number of derived meanings depending on when and where
it 
is used. An American conservative is different from a British or Canadian 
conservative and they from each other.  Rebels fight against conservatives

but once they win and establish the government they like, they seek to 
conserve it - to wit they become the conservatives.

Barry Goldwater led a 'conservative' movement in the USA in the early
1960s. 
Their goal was to scrap a number of ineffective federal programs and thus 
reduce taxes after paying down the national debt.  A failed actor named RR

was a charismatic speaker for them. Goldwater lost when LBJ swore not to 
send "your sons" to die in Vietnam. RR got into bed with religious
fasciests 
and others with axes to grind and took over the movement.  They kept the 
name 'conservative' to hide their real goals, aided by the liberal press. 
So now "conservative" means something far different than it's root (to 
conserve) would imply, especially to those with little grasp of language
or 
history.