Conservatism, to start with, with strong building materials, American made, that would weather any storm, until the importation of foreign made products, that fail and leave you out in the cold.
Progressive. Our founding fathers tried to create a ‘we’ society, not a ‘me’ society. That is why our first President, George Washington signed a law to provide food, shelter, clothing and medical care for the poor.
This nation does tend to oscillate from one extreme to the other, with a rebellion by youth against the "establishment" about once every thirty years or so---a pendulum swing that stabilizes in the middle for a while and then goes too far in one direction or the other before settling back to the middle once more. This pendulum swing would suggest that the U.S. is built on progress with an occasional dip into stagnation, similar in pattern to the ocean tides rising then ebbing in undulating constancy.
What the GOP mistakenly calls "conservatism" these days is more akin to religious-extremist fanaticism that would take this nation backwards into NEANDERTHAL dark ages on social justice issues and into the "Ozzie and Harriet" mentalities of the 1950s (pre-desegregation; pre-Civil Rights; pre-women's rights; pre-Right-to-Vote ). This type of extremism does NOT promote building or growth and has traditionally been the tight-edged repression that sparked rebelion and calls for change (progressive). The founding fathers fled religious extremism and oppressive persecution, seeking to be progressive in their demands for and implementation of freedoms.
Neither. It was built on the Constitution. Conservatives want to rule by literal translation while progressivism wants to completely scrap it and start over. The happy medium is to allow the damn thing to breathe like the writers intended.
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With a socialist as President and $16 trillion in national debt, we're quickly moving into a progressive state of socialism.
Conservatism, to start with, with strong building materials, American made, that would weather any storm, until the importation of foreign made products, that fail and leave you out in the cold.
Progressive. Our founding fathers tried to create a ‘we’ society, not a ‘me’ society. That is why our first President, George Washington signed a law to provide food, shelter, clothing and medical care for the poor.
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This nation does tend to oscillate from one extreme to the other, with a rebellion by youth against the "establishment" about once every thirty years or so---a pendulum swing that stabilizes in the middle for a while and then goes too far in one direction or the other before settling back to the middle once more. This pendulum swing would suggest that the U.S. is built on progress with an occasional dip into stagnation, similar in pattern to the ocean tides rising then ebbing in undulating constancy.
What the GOP mistakenly calls "conservatism" these days is more akin to religious-extremist fanaticism that would take this nation backwards into NEANDERTHAL dark ages on social justice issues and into the "Ozzie and Harriet" mentalities of the 1950s (pre-desegregation; pre-Civil Rights; pre-women's rights; pre-Right-to-Vote ). This type of extremism does NOT promote building or growth and has traditionally been the tight-edged repression that sparked rebelion and calls for change (progressive). The founding fathers fled religious extremism and oppressive persecution, seeking to be progressive in their demands for and implementation of freedoms.
Even the best of countries must make changes and the United States
has made economic, social, and political changes for the better.
But that is wholly different from making “change” a mantra.
To be for or against “change” in general is childish.
Everything depends of specifics. To be for generic “change”
is to say that what we have is so bad that any change is likely for the better.
Such a pose may make some people feel superior to others who find
much that is worth preserving in our values, traditions and institutions.
The status quo is never sacrosanct but its very existence proves that
it is viable, as seductive theoretical alternatives may not turn out to be.
"Ever Wonder Why?" by Thomas Sowell
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Progressive thought, continually slowed by conservative obstruction.
Neither. It was built on the Constitution. Conservatives want to rule by literal translation while progressivism wants to completely scrap it and start over. The happy medium is to allow the damn thing to breathe like the writers intended.
The latter. The former is destroying America.
progressive the cons want to live in the past