On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 04:36:22 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

> On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 7:10:08 AM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> > On 1/1/2016 23:06 Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > > On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 3:53:27 AM UTC-5, sf wrote:
> > >
> > >> Conservatives are afraid of change. They want to revert back to the
> > >> way they think it was, not the reality of what it was - just their
> > >> perception of the past.
> > >
> > > A healthy society needs both conservatives and liberals. Conservatives
> > > to retain the parts that work, liberals to change the parts that don't.
> >
> > Conservatives have a tendency to want to keep the parts that don't work.
>
> Yes, they do. Liberals need to drag them kicking and screaming into the
> 21st Century, while conservatives prevent society from careening off the
> rails. At the end of the tug-of-war, a moderate amount of progress is
> made.
>
> The U.S. has had a few decades of "too liberal", and now we seem to be
> leaning "too conservative". I'm hoping it'll all balance out eventually.
> However, systems controlled by positive feedback can oscillate wildly
> rather than stabilize. We'll just have to see what happens.
>
What, pray tell, was too liberal?


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