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Tom Brosz — (archived)

You could be right about tribalism being a good thing. You make a good case. And it goes without saying that groups of people working in voluntary cooperation can do many things not possible or easy for individuals. Even Ayn Rand realized this was an essential component of civilization. Thank God I don't have to make my own cars.

The conservative defends what's been proven to work; the liberal proposes trying something new that might, or might not, work even better. We need both, conservatism to consolidate our gains, and liberalism to advance further.

The kicker is how one decides what actually works better or not. Obviously "new = good" and "old = bad" is not a valid way of deciding. Nor is the inverse. One has to look past the politics and see the objective realities, and neither side excels at this.

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