almostinsane
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All except for the last bit, I agree pretty strongly on. As to the last bit...
Change where the 'liberal/conservative' balance is. When the liberal is arguing for bodily autonomy ala recreational drug use as a legal matter, and the conservative is arguing about the deleterious social effects thereof, you can have a reasonably healthy society.
When the liberal is arguing about how if you don't approve of your children being fed hormones for the opposite gender you're committing child abuse, and the conservative is trying to explain that sexualizing children is bad, your society is not in a healthy place.
As I said, I was talking about the conservative/liberal balance in the 19th century sense. It was accepted up until very recently that children were untouchable and should be accepted. If the envelope has been pushed into that direction, it needs to be pushed back hard. Right now, it needs to be pushed back hard.
Ah but many a reactionary would say liberalism was the ground from which socialist and hedonism sprung up from.
While that’s obviously debatable, you can‘t have Marx without Adam Smith.
And without Adam Smith, you wouldn't have America. We must fight for the good and reject the bad rather than reject reality. We cannot go back to feudalism or mercantilism.