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MrRodgers -> RE: Doubting my affiliation (2/26/2011 11:20:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Arpig
This comes from a C-mail exchasnge: I think that the burden of reasonableness lies on the left, not because they have been more outrageous, but simply because it is the natural requirement of their position...by definition conservatives wish to keep things as they are...and thus have only to make the argument that things are OK as they are, while the liberal, again almost by definition is required to show how the changes he proposes will benefit the whole. The burden of proof is on the liberal or change-maker, and thus the burden of civility in a debate is also there. This doesn't excuse conservatives from being polite as well, just that as the "defending" force they have a teeny bit more leeway, not in the politeness factor, but in the vehemence factor. You are, after all defending what is...it is up to us to attack that status quo in a decent manner, it is us on the far left who want to radically alter your lifestyle, and thus the burden is on us to show how and why it would be better, and to do so in a manner that is both polite and logical....I mean we all know the lefties are right [;)]
You see Arpig you begin to enter into perspective again. Just one brief example of your perspective conservative needs, in that almost to a person the left i.e., liberals in 2000 could have just as easily wanted, taxes, foreign policy, Glass-Steagall and the federal budget to mention just a few...all remain the same.
'Conservatives' weren't happy with leaving things as they were and did ALL of the changing 2000-2008 and backed it up with obviously suspect rationales...if not outright lies.
Also, it is in fact the so-called social conservatives firmly planted on the right that wish to control and ensure your virtuous behavior and basically will tell you just about exactly how you are supposed to live in order to accomplish their social goals.
This is reflected most recently with the religious radical, repub state pol in Geo. who submits a bill to make mothers criminally responsible for her own miscarriage. So let's talk, let's have that conversation because just what is really conservative and what is liberal has become so malleable, it renders debate in need of a very wide discretion.
You see the problem is you would be much more correct describing say...Eisenhower conservatism but the right of today is way off track and therein lies our future political problems.
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