Neocons will disagree, but I nominate the USofA.
Recommend you read Crane Brinton's "The Anatomy
of Revolution." The 1965 revision of a 1938 book.
This is actual, serious scholarship and it is dead on.
I do not know what your agenda is with regard to
conservatives in general, you have always impressed me
as being at least rational, preferring Mac to an extreme
degree but at least conversant with other OSes.
Well, I'm a conservative. You find that hard to believe
from an Amiga using, Linux supporting broken down gamer
like me?
Not too hard to understand. I value individual liberty and the
Constitution, as written. Those are the rules of our society.
It would be easy to imagine a government that breaks faith with
those that elected it. It is said that people get the government
they deserve.
But the United States is something new. We can, and do, "toss
the rascals out." On a regular basis. On occasion we do elect a
new bunch of rascals. But the system is designed in such a way
as to never allow particular rascals enough time to do real damage.
On the whole, George W. Bush wasn't a totally bad President.
Yes he was stupid to invade Iraq. Yes he was an incredibly bad
public speaker. But the moment of his Presidency that I will most
remember was at 9:00 a.m. on 9/11/2001. He was reading to schoolchildren
when an aide brought him the news. He was speechless, floored.
But he got up and kept on going. That my friends is class.
We don't always elect the best people for the job. But we do
elect them, and that is what is important.
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