Who We Are (A Rumination)

[WestCoastLib]

1. Interesting read.

I agree with much of it, but I do think you paint with a bit of too broad a brush. I have known a large number of lifelong republicans that left the party when Bush was in office and voted for Kerry/Obama. Though, they are certainly "conservative" they want nothing to do with what is going on with the teaparty or current GOP. They don't embody most of what you suggest. The point is that there is hope for many of them yet.

However, there is no question that liberal ideas are generally responsible for progress. It's the ideal that looks to the future while conservatives clong to the past.

What I've never understood is how you can support ideas that you know time and again are going to end up being on the wrong side of history. You can't stop progress, you can only slow it down. Why not support trying to make the future the best it can possibly be, rather than simply try to put up roadblocks to progress?

Fortunately I don't know a lot of social conservatives. Fiscal consevatives are pretty much motivated by greed which is bad enough, but at least they are genrally honest about it.