Conservador x Liberal

O debate [ou racha, ou quebra-pau, ou bate-boca] entre Olavo de Carvalho e Rodrigo Constantino , pelo menos teve um resultado positivo. Ele serviu para mostrar que há diferenças entre liberais e conservadores. Olavo de Carvalho escreveu um pequeno artigo "Por que não sou liberal". Vale a pena ler e compara-lo ao ensaio do Hayek "Why I am not a conservative".
Apesar de ter sido escrito em 1960, Hayek continua atual: "The picture generally given of the relative position of the three parties does more to obscure than to elucidate their true relations. They are usually represented as different positions on a line, with the socialists on the left, the conservatives on the right, and the liberals somewhere in the middle. Nothing could be more misleading. If we want a diagram, it would be more appropriate to arrange them in a triangle with the conservatives occupying one corner, with the socialists pulling toward the second and the liberals toward the third. But, as the socialists have for a long time been able to pull harder, the conservatives have tended to follow the socialist rather than the liberal direction and have adopted at appropriate intervals of time those ideas made respectable by radical propaganda. It has been regularly the conservatives who have compromised with socialism and stolen its thunder".