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by Factotum on November 4th, 2009
I don't know that that paradigm is particularly liberal. It's a useful simplification of roles for purposes of conversation though. Honestly each of us are sheep/shepherd/wolf depending on the situation. Ideally we socialize the wolf out of people but it's not perfect.
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Thing about politics is that with these three definitions we are almost all sheep by process of elimination. Even if you research your political positions with the utmost care and vote accordingly you still aren't for practical purposes defeating wolves or being a wolf yourself.
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Come to think of it, who ARE the wolves in this scenario? Rabid, slavering partisans? Circling, growling vested interests? Mangy talk show hosts? Whining politicians?
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You're reading The liberal paradigm divides the American body politic into sheep, wolves, and would-be shepherds. The shepherds must defeat the efforts of the wolves. In your opinion, to which group do YOU belong?
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@Factotum - The 'wolves' in this scenario are people like the management of Enron, Goldman Sachs, etc.
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Unfortunately, the 'wolves' have learned to distract the 'sheep' with non-entities like ACORN, etc.
by Old School on November 4th, 2009
Factotum : your difficulty to sort the things out withing the paradigm that I offered all originate from the fact that this paradigm is liberal, not yours. Note that Old School guy has no difficulty whatsoever to understand what I am speaking about... thus disproving the claims of other liberals that such paradigm is not theirs at all.
by Alexander on November 4th, 2009
@Alexander - Don't put words in my mouth....
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I think your model is neither 'liberal', nor terribly useful.
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Almost ALL people are 'sheep', 'wolves', AND 'shepherds' in their lives, at different times and in different roles. Bernie Madoff gave lots of money to charity (shepherd) and was very kind and considerate to his family and neighbors (sheep), yet he was a first class 'wolf' as an investment adviser.
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I don't know whether it's because you're young, or just lacking enough education, but your thinking lacks sophistication.
by Old School on November 4th, 2009