[quote=briansd1]Liberal progressive ideals will always win out, sooner or later. Conservatives just retard progress.[/quote]
It’s not their ideals that concern me, it’s their ideas. I think a lot of times half-baked ideas are thrown out just to “do something”. Then it becomes obvious within sometimes only a couple of years or sometimes more than that that maybe there was a reason things used to be the way they were, and maybe it wasn’t so bad after all.
Take relaxing the 20% down on home loans as an example. Or moratoriums on foreclosures as another. Or unindexed AMT as another. These were all “ideas” that turned out to be not so good. Will nationalized health care also turn out to have been something we should have been more careful about?
Actually I guess the ideals concern me too. That somehow a utopia can be created where the government ensures nothing bad can happen to anyone. Wrong.
I guess I’m doing the strawman thing here – sorry.
Using engineering terminology, to respond to your statement, I’d say if we gave the liberals their way, we’d have an underdamped society. The conservatives add a little damping to hopefully improve stability – at the cost of responsiveness.
Do you agree? Or are the conservatives literally just redneck neanderthals?
