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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
I'm confident that pornography will continue to be the vastly successful enterprise it is during a second Bush Presidency. I'd be interested if anyone here has actually had any of their personal freedoms lost to any significant degree during the past four years as a result of any new initiatives that are supposedly aimed at limiting our personal freedoms. IMO, it just isn't something to worry too much about when compared to national security issues or economic realities.
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I guess the question then becomes:
Have you been killed by a terrorist since 9/11 or have you been arrested due to trumped charges based on legislation like the Patriot Act and/or the Ashcroftian method of evaluating the letter of the law?
I suspect very few would answer yes to either option. But there are far more who have had to deal with the latter.
Now, economic troubles? Yeah. That trumps national security and personal rights by a vast margin.
Also - can anyone point me to numbers on the makeup of the Republican party? My impression is that it is equally split between stringent social conservatives (whom I would call fundamentalists) and stringent fiscal conservatives (whom I would call libertarians)?