^z 27th June 2023 at 6:48am
| "Liberals are people who would like to see things improved, and conservatives are people who would like to see things not worsened." |
... said Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) in a 1987 CSPAN interview with Brian Lamb (as quoted recently by E J Dionne Jr via Jeffrey Tyler Syck).
Moynian spoke of the need for balance in life – the sad fact that there are many ways for things to go wrong in the world, and for big complex systems to decline. Good, nuanced, mature thinking!
(cf Lyndon Johnson Political Philosophy (2006-10-06), Righteous Mind (2020-07-12), Humane Conservatism (2020-12-29), Liberal Party, Conservative Party (2022-02-25), ...)^z - 2023-06-27