07-30-2016, 10:24 PM
Maybe the Democrats have gone so far as to adopt what was best in the Republican Party, what the Republican Party gave up as it courted the stupidest and meanest people in America. Many of the members of the liberal party of the time are there because the Republican Party made choices that excluded them. In a week the Democrats may have redefined what it means to be a conservative.
Conservatives at one time defended the status quo, but they were also smart enough to recognize that the common man needed a stake in the status quo. They believed in equality of opportunity in education and in starting businesses. They fostered thrift instead of personal and public debt. They preferred that people save instead of borrow, and that if people actually did borrow such was for a tangible asset. They thought education and reason desirable even of those had the temper of morality.
Conservatives stood for old decencies and rejected demagoguery and scapegoating.
Conservatives at one time defended the status quo, but they were also smart enough to recognize that the common man needed a stake in the status quo. They believed in equality of opportunity in education and in starting businesses. They fostered thrift instead of personal and public debt. They preferred that people save instead of borrow, and that if people actually did borrow such was for a tangible asset. They thought education and reason desirable even of those had the temper of morality.
Conservatives stood for old decencies and rejected demagoguery and scapegoating.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.