Reply #4: Well, by their very nature, they can't [View All]

[Proud Liberal Dem]

Things suck right now after 8 years of Reagan, 4 years of Bush I, and 8 years of Bush II, things used to suck in a lot of ways for a lot of people before The New Deal- and Repubs want to either take us back to the way things were prior to FDR's New Deal- which sucked- or keep us where, I guess, we are now- which also sucks. :shrug: There's really nothing idealistic, enlightening, or positive about their agenda at all as far as I can tell. There's always a certain fear of change- which the Repubs know and have exploited too well over the years but the NATURAL state of *gasp* EVOLUTION for societies seems to be towards progress and advancement of the social, economic, and political order NOT stagnation and/or reversion to earlier, less advanced states of being. If you think about things in that way, "conservatism" could actually be considered "unnatural" IMHO.