Gabbard a Terrorist
- By BradStevens
- The Water Cooler
- 296 Replies
I think there is a lot of conflation of conservatives with those wanting policies favored by the right.In the strictest definition of conservative you are correct. In the political definition you are not.
The philosophical underpinnings of conservatives is the recognition of a set of principles that recognize (1) a value to tradition, (2) a suspicion of unfettered "reason" based on a recognition of the limitations of human intelligence, and (3) the costs inherent in all change, with radical change perhaps being exponentially more costly, not linearly so.
Once you throw those away, I'm not sure the policy positions those on the right favor are any more defensible--maybe less so--than the ones on the left.