Kerry: "None of your business!"

[classical liberal]

The North & the West Coast
Basically what the Liberal Republican Party won in the mid-1800's is what will mostly go automatically for the Liberal Democratic Party in the early 2000's.  There are obvious exceptions but the trends seem the same.

[classical liberal]

I forsee a period from 2004 or 2008 indefinitely onwards dominated by the liberal party, like from 1850's-1890's.  Maybe in 2040 there will begin a period of back-and-forth but then in about 2070 the liberal party will take over for another 40-50 year stint.

[classical liberal]

What is conservative today was seen as liberal at the time.  What was conservative at the time is seen as barbaric today. What is liberal today would have been seen as crazy back then.

[classical liberal]

Every day partisan politics.

[classical liberal]

Of course, if you dissect the word: patris ota "soldier of the father(land)"  it seems a bit too much like "for mother russia"

[classical liberal]

Not you as an individual, but the collective you of society chose these things at the point where the languages converged to a limit in their evolution.

The "grasshopper" bit seems a bit out of place there.