Differences

According to my statement of the intent of this blog (check the header), I don't have an agenda. This remains true, although I've recently got all approvally about recent political events. Well, why not? Everybody likes an occasional feel-good. What's bothering me is that not everyone got a goody this time, and that's a shame, because if things work out this could be win-win for all of us.

Maybe it would be productive to define the terms "Liberal" and "Conservative".

Let's take Conservative first (ABC order). The term basically means "cautious". Politically it used to mean, "Be careful that in your zeal to improve things you don't accidentally throw out the baby with the bath water". It's chief value is as a mature check on the exuberance of well meant liberalism. In this sense "conservative" means "thoughtful". Lately, it appears that a number of those who support conservative principals are acting more as if they are cornered than thoughtful. These people could be more useful directing and refining "change" which is after all inevitable. Next.

Liberals are the weather changers of the human race. They are enthusiastic, and we find them in the leading edge of the storm front of political change. Good for them; they just can't seem to understand why everybody else doesn't get it. This kind of mind lock, as in the case of conservatives, leads to hard-headed foolishness. What would be useful, would be for those of both mind-sets to get their butts off their shoulders and sit them down around some hot caffeine drinks. And, of course, talk about it.

I find that I am conservative in that I want things to be as nice as I can remember them as being.

I'm also liberal enough to want things to be better.

Regards,
Daddy