Tell me, why do you believe this crap? Does the world. a changing world, just scare you and keep you up at night?
Perhaps it is not change that scares, but the direction in which change is heading...
Well put, Kondor....
Let me add this distinction: the speed of said change.
Liberals are impulsive, and imprudent. They believe in quick changes, and risk new abuses worse than the ‘evils’ that they would sweep away, since remedies are usually not simple. Plato said that prudence is the mark of the statesman. There should be a balance between permanence and change, while liberals see ‘progress’ as some mythical direction for society.
I'll settle for 'Direction' being the primary cause for alarm or angst or frustration, with 'Speed' being secondary.
Conservatives have a bad rep for being too detached from the Common Man, and for not advocating strongly enough for the Common Man, or even against his interests.
Lib-Progs have a bad rep for emotion-based knee-jerk reactions and indulging in orgies of jackrabbit-changes while their window-of-opportunity lasts, consequences be damned.
Conservatives have a bad rep for being isolationist or nationalistic and xenophobic in nature and largely un-welcoming of fresh immigration and cultural influences.
Lib-Progs have a bad rep for presenting their backsides to illegal immigrants and alien cultures without regard for borders or dilution of existing culture and identity and largely without regard for the poison-pill ideologies and primitive and violence-prone and assimilation-resistant baggage which some non-Western immigrant cultures and belief-systems bring with them.
In that regard, Lib-Progs make the dangerous mistake of equating the consequences and aftereffects of waves of Muslim immigration with waves of non-Muslim immigration in times past.
Islam is a different critter.
Lib-Progs cannot bring themselves to acknowledge that the cultural and political and violence-enabling baggage that Muslim immigrants bring with them are different in nature and scope and pervasiveness than any other group we've dealt with before.
And then, to make matters worse, Lib-Progs will delude themselves that the predictable and inevitable Culture Clash issues that arise afterwards, are actually attributable to other factors or that things aren't as bad as those sounding an alarm would have us believe.
Conservatives as just as capable of being foolish as Liberal-Progressives are, in other important matters.
But, in matters of cultural assimilation and immigration, and Multi-Culti (
multiculturalism) and, most specifically, in connection with the ongoing and mounting problems that posed by sizable waves of immigration from Muslim-dominated parts of the world...
Lib-Progs most closely resemble ostriches hiding their heads in the sand; most commonly motivated by a highly laudable desire for and commitment to Egalitarianism, but, unfortunately, rendered, for all practical purposes, as Egalitarianism at Any Cost
or Risk.
Their viewpoint in connection with MultiCulti, as it applies to Muslim immigration, is quite honestly and arguably, largely divorced from reality, dangerous to society, and not to be trusted.
At best, they serve a purpose in this respect, in preventing the Opposite Camp from going overboard in the
other direction, but, generally speaking, they should not be allowed to set and sustain policy in such matters, for any appreciable period of time.
Whenever the Lib-Progs get a turn at-bat, they always try to push society down this shitty Multi-Culti path, and, eventually, the mainstream gets fed up with it, and votes-in more Conservatives, with an eye towards bringing the focus back to the middle again.
In this respect, Lib-Progs are even more Learning-Impaired than their Conservative counterparts - and that's considerable in its own right.
