PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
Moderation, ratiocination, careful thoughtfulness and analysis of the future......found in one of the two parties.
1.Just one example of the brilliance of our Founders is that they aimed to make certain that change didn’t occur too quickly….as in the words of the song:
“Slow down, ya’ move too fast….”
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2. A defining difference between conservatives and Liberals/Democrats is how each views change.
Liberals/Democrats 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.
From Eric Hoffer in The True Believer, “…people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world land would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.”
3. Moderation is embedded in the law of the land, our Constitution.
“Our Founding Fathers—in the eighteenth century—had a very different view of democracy from that of their contemporary revolutionary colleagues in France. There, Enlightenment philosophers felt that it was the duty of government to heed what they called the “general will.” So they developed a political system in which there were no checks and balances, but the popular will ruled the day. Every day.
By contrast, our Founders were skeptical of the “general will,” and worried that it could be too easily inflamed by passion and prejudice. So they developed a constitutional system designed to enable—but also to thwart—the popular will by making it wait until after passions had cooled to be enacted.
This suspicion of the general will led to their decision to stagger the terms of presidents, senators, and congressman so that one election could not completely change the government. While congressmen—the core of representative democracy—were elected every two years, senators were elected every six, and presidents every four.” Dick Morris, “The Return”
The Constitution is the only document that Americans have agreed to be governed by. This doesn’t apply to Democrat voters, as that party is not an American party, but a European creation.
Note how often the Democrats have ignored the powers that the Founders gave to the central government, and, most recently, in the 2020 election, in order to steal the election.
1.Just one example of the brilliance of our Founders is that they aimed to make certain that change didn’t occur too quickly….as in the words of the song:
“Slow down, ya’ move too fast….”
.
2. A defining difference between conservatives and Liberals/Democrats is how each views change.
Liberals/Democrats 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.
From Eric Hoffer in The True Believer, “…people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world land would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.”
3. Moderation is embedded in the law of the land, our Constitution.
“Our Founding Fathers—in the eighteenth century—had a very different view of democracy from that of their contemporary revolutionary colleagues in France. There, Enlightenment philosophers felt that it was the duty of government to heed what they called the “general will.” So they developed a political system in which there were no checks and balances, but the popular will ruled the day. Every day.
By contrast, our Founders were skeptical of the “general will,” and worried that it could be too easily inflamed by passion and prejudice. So they developed a constitutional system designed to enable—but also to thwart—the popular will by making it wait until after passions had cooled to be enacted.
This suspicion of the general will led to their decision to stagger the terms of presidents, senators, and congressman so that one election could not completely change the government. While congressmen—the core of representative democracy—were elected every two years, senators were elected every six, and presidents every four.” Dick Morris, “The Return”
The Constitution is the only document that Americans have agreed to be governed by. This doesn’t apply to Democrat voters, as that party is not an American party, but a European creation.
Note how often the Democrats have ignored the powers that the Founders gave to the central government, and, most recently, in the 2020 election, in order to steal the election.
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