$40 million is about to be unleashed by lobby groups to influence the makeup of the Supreme Court and therefore the very social fabric of the US. The choice is not between a Democrat or a Republican but between a conservative or liberal, this is something far more partisan and corrupting.
Conservatives are people who think that the moral fabric of the nation was better in the past, liberals think that it was worse.
This measure of right and left has not changed in hundreds of years, whereas specific policies have. That would suggest that ideology rather than policy is a better measure of conservativism rather than liberalism.
Thinking that things were better and more moral in the past is not something that has a fixed point in time, there have always been conservatives who thought it was better in the old days, there were many conservatives who opposed Lincoln .
If you believe that the abolition of slavery and giving people the right to vote was a good thing then you can be a Republican or a Democrat, but you cannot be a conservative.
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