Heraldblog: When left is right, right is left

Heraldblog has a good post on the outdated notions of conservative and liberal. The labels really don't apply well anymore. Look at abortion, as a simple example. The "liberal" view, pro-choice, is basically that of a restricted government letting people make their own choices, a traditionally small government conservative viewpoint. On the other hand, the "conservative" view, pro-life, is one in which the government imposes its moral view on everyone, which is really big government liberalism. So the labels are meaningless, but so much of the political discourse in the country revolves around them. Meanwhile, while the politicians smear each other with empty labels of "conservative" and "liberal", nothing gets done and the country stagnates, with very real problems unaddressed.

Heraldblog's conclusion?

I know there is a third way between the GOP's corrupt, laissez faire approach on one hand, and the Democrat's group think on the other. It is to abandon notions that there is a right and left, and that everything is either or.

Exactly.