No revenge, but a reckoning.
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wrote on 30 Jul 2022, 15:25 last edited by
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wrote on 30 Jul 2022, 15:49 last edited by
You’d think conservatives would have heard of Chesterton’s fence.
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wrote on 30 Jul 2022, 16:30 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in No revenge, but a reckoning.:
You’d think conservatives would have heard of Chesterton’s fence.
Would you mind explaining how Chesterton's Fence applies to that article?
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wrote on 30 Jul 2022, 16:49 last edited by
There was a reason we went through the very difficult process of civil service reform in the first place, isolating most government employees from partisan firing/hiring every few years.
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wrote on 30 Jul 2022, 17:43 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in No revenge, but a reckoning.:
You’d think conservatives would have heard of Chesterton’s fence.
“Republican” today not necessarily “conservative.”
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wrote on 30 Jul 2022, 17:44 last edited by
Yeah that occurred to me as I was posting.
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@jon-nyc said in No revenge, but a reckoning.:
You’d think conservatives would have heard of Chesterton’s fence.
“Republican” today not necessarily “conservative.”
wrote on 30 Jul 2022, 17:54 last edited by@Axtremus said in No revenge, but a reckoning.:
@jon-nyc said in No revenge, but a reckoning.:
You’d think conservatives would have heard of Chesterton’s fence.
“Republican” today not necessarily “conservative.”
In the absence of perfect adherence to a philosophy, one might prefer at least an overall direction.
Raises the question, what word would one use to describe the nominal underlying political philosophy of Democrats?
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wrote on 30 Jul 2022, 18:44 last edited by
It sure as hell isn't liberal.