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"Left wing kookiness" (was: Self-Sufficiency Acreage...?)
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:04:05 -0800, Robert Sturgeon
wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:12:12 GMT, (George Cleveland) wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:46:20 -0500, Tom Quackenbush wrote: George Cleveland wrote: "Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative." - John Stuart Mill OK, I have to confess ignorance here - I'm not very familiar with J.S. Mill. When did he write that & did he mean "conservative" in the same political sense that it's used today? I only ask because it seems that being conservative, rather than innovative, is a good survival strategy for those of us that aren't brilliant. IOW, reliance on the "tried and true" methods seems to be a safer bet than risking the unknown, which tends to have a high failure rate. FWIW, I'm all in favor of _someone_ risking the unknown, but if I were responsible for feeding my wife & kids, I'd rather it were someone _else_. R, Tom Q. These are good points. Obviously he was referring to what was considered conservative in his own time. And its not just the intellectually challenged who end up supporting the "Old Regime", whatever that is at the given time and place. Yes, but the Old Regime now is the New Deal setup FDR and LBJ saddled us with. The so-called "conservatives" aren't. The so-called "liberals" aren't. The words that we use to describe the political factions are exactly ass-backwards from the truth. Nope. The Old Regime are the Reaganites and the large corporations. They have been the peoiple in power for most of the last 150 years. The powerless in general receive no favors by sticking their necks out. If you're living close to the bone, any change can be just enough to send you into personal and familial disaster. Thats why revolutions against repressive regimes and economic systems are so rare. The oppressed have to literally reach the point where they have nothing left to lose. Revolutions usually occur when the lot of the ordinary people is improving. The truly hopeless seldom rebel. Who, by the way,can think of no American government in history that would qualify as "leftist". The New Deal certainly was (unless by "leftist" you mean "communist"). Nope again. FDR didn't propose anything that hadn't been proposed by the Progressive Party which was a spin off from the Republican Party. Most of FDR's reforms were modest compared to the rising leftist popular sentiment at the time. Robert Sturgeon, proud member of the vast right wing conspiracy and the evil gun culture. g.c. |
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