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Quotes on Conservatives and Conservatism

I was looking for a place to file these for future reference and decided this was as good a place as any. Besides, it’s good to share. “Share your toys,” my Mother always said. My God! I just realized that Mom was a closet liberal!
“Today’s so-called ‘conservatives’ don’t even know what the word means. They [...]

Liberal vs. Conservative #2

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Conservative Editorial Gets it Very Wrong on Coal and Global Warming

By David Satterlee
This morning, I opened the Fort Dodge, Iowa Messenger News. I’ve been skipping past the editorial section because it tends to feature mostly conservative columnists beating the same old drums. Today, feeling the sap rising in the grass-roots democratic arm of the Democratic Party, I decided to start reading that page regularly.
The [...]

Conservatives Still Depending on Emotional Words to Make their Case

By David Satterlee
All politicians are aware that they need to be careful of their words. Words have the power to invoke strong emotions, which can distract from rational debate. These words, repeated over and over, confer the conviction of certainty and authority, even when they lack any basis in fact.
But, Republicans seem to have made [...]

Bill Clinton: Banks and Businesses Could End Recession Now

Source: Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy by Bill Clinton
Abstracted from pages 120, 121
First at, we have to get money flowing. Recessions created by financial crashes usually take longer to get over, five to ten years or more, than business-cycle recessions, because banks are reluctant to lend, businesses are [...]

Bill Clinton: Focus on Short-term Profit Damages the Public Interest

Source: Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy by Bill Clinton Abstracted from page 87
In the 1980s, Wall Street and many large corporations embraced what was then a new idea—that publicly traded companies’ first and overwhelming obligation is to their shareholders. Until that time, most people thought [...]

Bill Clinton on Damaging vs. Improving Government

Source: Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy by Bill Clinton Abstracted from pages 42-47
Whatever our shortcomings, because Democrats, whether conservative, liberal, or moderate, basically believe government has an important role to play in our lives, they want it to work well. That makes most of them [...]

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