Politics

Mark Steyn wastes his genius by talking about the future of conservatism. Before we can address the future of conservatism, we must define conservatism. Conservatism is the support for the status quo. The idea behind conservatism is that things are the way they are today because those things are in our best interest. It's a philosophy void of rational. It's also a philosophy designed to benefit progressives. For example, if  there is no income tax, conservatives resist an income tax, but once progressives pass an income tax, that becomes the status quo and conservatives support it. The same thing with central banking. At first conservatives resist it, but once bankers establish it, conservatives support it. Conservatives are the best allies progressives ever had. Understanding this, determining the future of conservatives is easy: they will suffer pain and poverty unknown in the last century or worse. Conservatives support the same self-destructive poliicies as progressives, but a couple of years behind. The time frame is not important. The policies were destructive yesterday, are more destructive today, and will be even more destructive tomorrow. Destruction via government policy is the inevitable result of conservative support.

There is a better way. Support for the status quo is brainless. It's the easy way out. But we can think of better ideas. For example, is it better to steal the current level of money government steals from us, or would it be better if government stole less money from us? Clearly, the answer is the latter. But if we believe that, then we're better off if the government steals no money from us. The burden of government's status quo is the biggest problem we all face in our lives. Reducing that burden is the best interest of all of us, and by extension, by eliminating that burden, we're all better off than ever. If conservatives want to improve their lives and lives of the rest of us, they need to stop being conservatives and staring being libertarians.