Liberal politics are a lose-lose situation

[peter]

"Big government" is needed to advance the social agenda because otherwise conservatives will use state's rights to perpetuate social injustice.

The reason that modern day conservatives love to hark back to the merits of liberalism of the past reinforces what is exactly my point. Liberalism of the past won over the conservatism of the past. What conservatives of the past once fought against, modern conservatives now accept/embrace/defend. They are however, in the process, conceding that their conservative predecessors were wrong.

And future conservatives will look back on the conservatives of the present, and concede, in large measure, that you were wrong. The liberalism of today will be the center/right of a couple generations from now.

Why I have to give up off my money for social agenda (social justice) ? It doesn't make the country better and makes me poorer.