Tell Me Why

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Yet Conservatism is pretty simple, and is based on just a few principles. Human nature remains constant, and thus is predictable across time and space [i.e., spacetime]. There is a certain humility that comes with conservatism, since the ways of the world, despite the technological chaos, are constant. We know, 1000 years past or right now, that the more we tax something the less we get of it, while the more we subsidize [something], the more [of it] we obtain—given that people will slack when they can, and won’t when they can’t.

Sometimes this conservative take on human nature can get a little depressing, when we know that punishments really do deter crime, or silly things like high walls or fines on employers really do keep out illegal immigrants, or strong nations ready for war are not attacked while weak ones eager for peace are. So here we are on the eve of a great experiment, akin to the European socialist model that contradicts human nature — one that its creators over there are now fleeing from as we apparently, a day late [and] a dollar short, seek to emulate it.

I know that Victor's "whys and wherefores" are rhetorical, but the wise and brilliantly concise response bears repeating, over and over again:

“Two things are infinite — the universe and human stupidity. And I am not sure about the universe.” — Albert Einstein

I offer a less wise, admittedly derivative, but perhaps specifically suitable response to the present situation:

To err is human. To really f*ck things up requires the machinations of liberal fascists.