The Language of Politics and the Politics of Language

According to Borick, the Libertarian, Liberal, and Conservative political groups are more similar than we all might think. In fact, all political groups might be quite a bit more alike than anyone previously believed. Borick focuses much of his piece on the fact that it is at times very difficult to decipher specifically the differences between each political group. There are, after all, such things as a very very conservative liberal, and a very very liberal conservative. He demonstrated this with the survey and opinion box on page 680. The reason that it is so difficult to make out the separations between the conservative, liberal, and libertarian parties is because politics are people's opinions--they are the way people feel about the world and what goes on in it. Instead of simply indentifying ourselves with one sole group, it makes more sense to discuss certain issues separately so that the optimal solution can be reached, without the concern of certain group or party principles being alienated, ignored, or otherwise abused. In addition to this, there is often  lacking of consistent beliefs within the human race in general. Borick states in his piece, "Thus while the American liberal and conservative may have real differences, the divide may be exaggerated when labels are being applied in the heat of political debate." Which is, after all, true, since terms like conservative, Republican, liberal, libertarian, and all the rest are really only labels. But furthermore, Borick, with this statement, correctly and logically implies that human thought, opinion, and emotion regularly get in the way of politics, or are at least heavily involved in them. For this reason, it is difficult to decipher constant and exact separations between the conservative, liberal, and libertarian political parties.