So, post dinner with Luke, Chad, and Ro I was on my way to Raleigh’s for the dean meetup\/berkeley students for dean meeting which was on Chad’s way home, and we were talking about dean and liberals in general. And specifically how liberals tend to be less coherent than conservatives. And further, how this is completely logical given that, using the original meanings of the words, conservatives wish to maintain the status quo, while liberals wish to change it. Maintaining something is a singular goal. Change does not, however, specify what sort of change one desires, and hence, the lack of uniformity in those desiring change. Even agreement on the goals doesn’t imply agreement in methodology.<\/p>\n
Ro put an interesting spin on it at work today. He suggested the conservative motivation was love and the liberal motivation was hate … for the status quo. And that love is inherently more unifying than hate. <\/p>\n
It’s a sign of how liberal I am that it is difficult for me to conceive of love for the status quo. But the notion does reframe things in a very different perspective. (not that it changes my politics in the slightest, just my attitude. More like ‘poor lost little doves’ rather than ‘selfish raging assholes’).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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