09-05-2018, 03:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-05-2018, 03:18 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(09-04-2018, 10:26 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: The day the blues stop looking backwards for solutions relating to the modern day and stop clinging to beliefs and values associated with the past during the height of the old Democratic party.
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To me, Conservative means a desire to cling to old values, not change. Progressive means to adapt new values, to change. For example conservative in global warming is to deny the greenhouse effect and continue to release pollutants. To be progressive is to stop releasing them. To be conservative in the late Gilded Age was to continue without workplace safety, child labor or work hour protections, while being Progressive was to enact laws addressing the issues. In war, conservative in one era was to maintain isolationism, to strive not to embroil oneself in European Conflicts. It later meant to cling to being a world power, to cling to FDR's policies of being strong and acting abroad. Too be progressive is to adapt the culture to the future, to recognize that as technology changes it should be recognized and laws change to adapt, while being conservative sees the values of the past, especially old power structures are allowed to keep past ways of making profits.
I think you are confused, have it backwards of the usual understanding. What exactly do you mean here?
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.