THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
2007-11-27 08:55:22 · 16 answers · asked by J-MaN 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
What are they afraid of? Everything, but especially an informed electorate.
2007-11-27 09:00:40 · answer #1 · answered by Alex G 6 · 6⤊ 3⤋
How boring to see the same old rhetoric. This is one of the oldest tricks in the liberal basket of tricks. You phrase a question in such a way that any answer that doesn't completely support your position is immediately classified as an opposing position.
Few people will oppose change IF it can be demonstrated that the proposed change will produce a tangible, measurable improvement in what ever is being changed. Unfortunately, this is seldom the case and we are expected to simply accept the proposed change because we should.
The total knowledge in the world today is the sum of thousands of years of human experience. No one person on earth knows how to make a simple object like a pencil. It requires the interaction of various individuals or groups.
Regardless of how intelligent or educated a person may be, they possess perhaps .01% of the collective knowledge of the world population. They may be knowledgeable about treating cancer and yet woefully ignorant about repairing a lawnmower. They may be knowledgeable about the law and yet completely ignorant of economics. The list is endless...
Opponents to change when there is no way of knowing whether it will be beneficial or harmful is not a wrong position. Its an unpopular one in many cases but not always wrong.
There are some otherwise intelligent people who believe that the government should direct the economy. When shown how disastrous that has been in countries that have tried it they confidently inform the naysayer that "Its because it wasn't done right and they know how to do it right." In their minds they know they are right - and more intelligent and more compassionate and more caring and better educated than the rest of the world combined. Yet they still possess perhaps .01% of the world's collective knowledge.
2007-11-27 09:30:14 · answer #2 · answered by EDWIN 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As a conservative, I agree that there is always room for improvement. That's why I support school vouchers as opposed to the existing government monopoly. But the largely liberal teacher's union fights tooth and nail to keep that change from happening. I suppose it depends on who's changing what.
2007-11-27 09:07:23 · answer #3 · answered by J P 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are correct!
"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" Abraham Lincoln February 27, 1860 - Cooper Union Add
I added these from old Abe because it seems like he was looking into the future..........
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln
2007-11-27 09:04:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Conservatives are the right-wing and the right-wing is the wealthy-elite. As such, their capital investments are largely tied up in old established industries. For example, they have no interest is seeing the auto/oil industry replaced by something better. Nor do they want to see the military industrial complex downsized. And any changes that are beneficial to society at large and the general population is always a threat to profits.
2007-11-27 09:05:31 · answer #5 · answered by Mencken 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Conservatives want change!! They want to stop the slide down the socialist slope we have been on for decades. They want to shrink govt control and return freedoms to the people. They want to return to a more constitutional govt that benefits the hard working American. Conservatives are about the right kind of changes.
2007-11-27 09:08:03 · answer #6 · answered by gracilism 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Agreed.
Just imagine if conservatives had won all the battles. Nothing would have ever changed. Conservatives by definition support the status quo and are against change.
Important battles social and economic "traditionalists" lost.
- democracy over monarchy
- the American Revoluionary War
- the emancipation of slaves
- women's suffrage
- the civil rights movement
- birth control pills
- the legalization of interracial marriage
- worker rights
and
- government regulation of business to protect citizens and consumers
2007-11-27 08:58:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
If the first human who wanted to "conserve" a way of life had prevailed, we'd all still live in caves and drag our women by the hair.
2007-11-27 09:00:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, they do. That's the definition of conservation. Trying to keep as much of what you've got. Apparently, for conservatives, this is the best it's gonna get.
2007-11-27 09:07:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm not afraid of change - change is inevitable.
As good as it gets depends upon the level of desire for yourself.
2007-11-27 09:00:48 · answer #10 · answered by LadySable 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because even though what they have, money and stuff, is really the least important things that humans can hope to attain, they think it is what life is all about. So they have to keep things the same. Evolution is slowly taking care of them and their mindsets. As long as they keep breeding with their sisters and secretly bonking men in the bathroom there is hope.
Edwin..try leaving America. Go to Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand etc... then tell me that there isn't proof of a better way..
2007-11-27 09:03:24 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋