What was I thinking? Oh, yes… this whole conservative/liberal thing. And the fact that 'conservatives' are intent on preserving the country in a state of suspended animation. It's supposed to be just as they imagine it. The Good Old Days. And never to change. Hello! It will never be the same! We don't live in log cabins and we have been to the moon and back. So why would we be so interested in preserving the past? The past is what we learn from, not live in. Heck, just go back a 100 years. Women had no freedom and we hated the Irish. And you had a good chance of dying quite young if you made it past childhood. Disease was rampant. Corruption in politics was the norm and your chances of getting a decent education were close to non-existent. Public schools? Only the poor went there. If there were any schools.
Now, go back 200 years. Wait! Don't do it… it was even worse. You wouldn't like it.
We're in the 21st century and it's time we acted like it. And our form and style of government should change to reflect that. We need to be a thinking people and not a reacting people. Simply said, there are over 300 million of us now; we can't ignore one another anymore. We must take care of each other if we are to survive.
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