But keep in mind that what makes this country great is the tug-of-war between the extremes of the two ideologies. That’s why the lack of checks-and-balances in our government today is what really damages us, more than any particular corrupt person or small group of people in charge of one branch of government.

As much as right now it FEELS like everything conservative is evil, keep in mind that the logical conclusion of liberalism is communism, a system of government which can not work in any group so large that its members can no longer manage to be personally familiar with the majority of the rest of its members. Human nature prevents us from working hard when there is no correlation between our hard work and our rewards.

Just the same, the logical conclusion of the conservative extreme is absolute stasis.

A liberal ideology with no conservative grounding doesn’t recognize that runaway debt is a bad thing. In order to thrive, you need a good mix of the “Working to make things better” tempered by the “common sense” influence of conservative principles.

By the way, we should all try to recognize that it isn’t right to tar all conservatives with the brush of the current Administration. One good look at their fiscal and legal policies shows a marked departure from true conservative policies. Runaway deficit spending, larger government, ever more intrusive government, these are not conservative principles, they are fascist and dictatorial and despotic, the belief that because they’re in power, they have a divine right to behave as they wish, without consideration for the wants, needs and wellbeing of anyone else.

None of the preceeding means to say this piece is BAD, I just hope readers don’t let it push them FURTHER into the “My team vs Their team” mentality that I believe is at the heart of most of the problems facing our society and our country today.

Liam.

Wil, was that the 1950’s when we were all terrified of ‘the bomb’, blacks didn’t get a vote (has that changed? I wonder) and we sprayed ddt on the vegetables and ate wonderbread filled with chalk?
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You might like to read some of Robert Anton Wilsons stuf on ‘neophilia’ and ‘neophobia’.. Guess which way people tend to vote.

It seems like excessive money sometimes blinds people to what got them there in the first place.

Those in power are only conservative for one reason – because they are in power. Their only fear is losing that power, and hence, they fight viciously against anything that threatens the status quo.

This same reasoning is behind the movement to “bring America back to its roots” like it was in the “good ol’ 1950s.”