RE: How can the paramount good for liberals and conservatives be reconciled?
May 25, 2013 at 10:09 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2013 at 10:15 pm by Gilgamesh.)
I would be more likely to agree with a liberal about any given topic than a republican, although, this doesn't make me a liberal.
You really shut yourself in when you choose a side. Unfortunately it's human nature to want to belong to a group. When one chooses a side, one tends to become biased towards the ideals of 'their' party. If one wasn't so concerned with belonging to a party, one may find they were taking a lot of positions, not through reason, but because it's a position taken by their party.
But I do think to be a conservative you have to be either a dimwit and/or religious. To me, conservatism in America is only "We want religion in government."
You really shut yourself in when you choose a side. Unfortunately it's human nature to want to belong to a group. When one chooses a side, one tends to become biased towards the ideals of 'their' party. If one wasn't so concerned with belonging to a party, one may find they were taking a lot of positions, not through reason, but because it's a position taken by their party.
But I do think to be a conservative you have to be either a dimwit and/or religious. To me, conservatism in America is only "We want religion in government."
