[Traditional conservatives] were intensely interested in creating the sort of social, economic and political order that would encourage people to work hard, finish school and postpone childbearing until marriage.
To me this is not redistributing anything. I would gladly pay higher taxes if those revenues went towards reducing our debt, not bailing out banks but also not going towards pork barrel spending programs either.
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On the pragmatic side, going back to the utopia type of society that consists of universal equality, it simply is not possible. It never has been and it never will be. Anyone who even reads this site was blessed with the statistical improbability. By pure randomness they were born into one of the best, very best situations on the planet compared to billions of others.
The best we could hope for is the situation you described above. I don’t think we will ever, ever see it with the two party system we have.
