When Centrist Is Conservative

Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. You can thank the French for not only giving us the Statue of Liberty and french-fries, (Albeit they were named freedom-fries after the Sept. 11 attacks because then-French President Jacques Chirac refused to refused to support our military forays into Afghanistan and Iraq.), but also the concept and word Conservative. The term Conservative arose after the French Revolution in 1789. Conflicting economic and political goals in the Legislative Assembly, such as food shortages, unemployment, government debt, the rights of all citizens, and the limits of absolute monarchism caused the revolutionary leaders to turn on each other. The…

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