At 7:52 PM -0700 2/10/09, martin wrote:
>I vote that the folks who really care start calling themselves
>conservatives and take back the meaning of the word.
>
>Simply put conservative means measure twice, cut once. Very
>defensible position, applicable to most social solutions. If a
>society works better when everyone has enough, and a conservative
>wants the society to function most efficiently, then assuring that
>everyone has enough is a conservative goal.
The trouble is, a capitalist society simply doesn't work best when everyone has enough. It works best when some or most people don't have enough.
So maintaining an unequal society is a quite reasonable conservative strategy.
>Why puzzle over the meaning of liberal, when conservative works
>better. It's not their exclusive word. Turn social conservatives to
>conservative socialists.
You can be a conservative socialist. But that would involve radical change. Its a hard thing for conservatives to accept. I speak as a conservative socialist myself.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas