Posts Tagged ‘parties’

Fitting yourself into a neat box: The problem with bundling opinions

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Some on this blog have complained about the use of labels to denote ‘bundles of opinions’. Liberal. Conservative. Democrat. Republican. Gay. Straight. Pro or Anti-Hindu. These complaints struck a cord with some of the feelings I have on this issue. Why do we need someone else…a political party, a social group etc to tell us which opinions and views ‘belong together’? (more…)