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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 [...]

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: 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 [...]

Does Conservatism Inhibit Active Citizenship?

It occurred to me a while back that the conservative ideal of “individual freedom,” taken to its logical end, promotes anarchy. If everybody does only what appeals to them as being in the best interests of themselves, their family, or their tribe, it prevents them from fully engaging in the interests of broader civic and [...]

The Economic Benefits of Fairness to Wage Earners

I read the article in “The Daily Beast” – The Path to Victory in November for Barack Obama and the Democrats by Michael Tomasky. One of the comments pointed out that President Obama doesn’t get credit for all the changes that he has made to support America’s recovery and that he doesn’t spend enough time [...]

Bill Clinton on the Fiscal Irresponsibility that Predated Meltdown

Source: Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy by Bill Clinton
Abstracted from pages 34-35
From 1981 to 2009, the greatest accomplishment of the antigovernment Republicans was not to reduce the size of the Federal government but to stop paying for it. As a result, the national debt more than quadrupled from [...]

Bill Clinton on Need for Strong Private AND Public Sectors

Source: Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy by Bill Clinton
Abstracted from pages 17-18
I believe the only way we can keep the American dream alive for all Americans and continue to be the world’s leading force for freedom and prosperity, peace and security, is to have both a strong, effective [...]

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