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Conscience Of A Conservative And Barry Goldwater: A Political Analysis

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So-called ‘Conservatives’, especially of the talking head variety, have a history of flip-flopping about on issues. One moment they speak gravely about fiscal responsibility, next they feel debts and deficits are acceptable as long as the money is spent on some favoured project (usually national security). The act, usually put on by Republican cheerleaders and neoconservatives (e.g., Sean Hannity or Rick Perry), shouldn’t take much power of perception to see through, yet many voters continue to be taken in. Why? I suspect that it’s partly a failure to define terms and first principles, and Barry Goldwater spends the first chapter of Conscience of a Conservative addressing just that issue. He claims, “The root difference between the Conservatives
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