IS CITIZENSHIP TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR? from David Brin's 2006 blog post: https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/03/choices-we-face.html And yet, aren't we praying, right now, for just such a grim admission to emerge out of the festering pain of decent American conservatism? The honest and sincere conservatism of Barry Goldwater, that was based upon a straightforward dedication to rectitude and accountability, arising out of some combination of market forces, law, and a vibrantly empowered, democratically enlightened citizenry? The kind that proudly faced the best of liberalism, ready to negotiate how problems should be solved, not whether they should be ignored? That notion of conservatism remains valid and continues to deserve a place at-table, even now, after the movement's tiller has been hijacked by monsters. Is there even a slim chance that it can be rescued, before its reputation is permanently ruined by association with monsters?
*Twenty Years Ago* David Brin invoked the same 'hijacking' metaphor about the #MayberryMachiavellis' busily churning your #PrettyHateMachine...
The Great Futurist himself was *only* forty years too late!
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