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briandmyers · 4743 days ago · link · · parent · post: Differences in conservative and liberal brains
I think it's more interesting that these two labels. liberal and conservative, have come in to so much greater use over the last (say) 20 years. Before, people would just say "republican" or "democrat", but people nowadays, in both parties, feel so un-connected with, and distrustful of their own respective parties, that they have abandoned those labels - for equivalent ones. Funny how almost everyone in the USA will identify with one or the other of these labels (never both); it would be very odd to hear of Kiwis self-describing in such limited terms. The use of the terms themselves shows what a polarising concept a two-party system is.