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Why do liberals portray limited, Constitutional government as "the dark ages"?

when the polices they advocate more closely resemble ideas that have been around for hundreds of years prior to the dark ages.

The government becomes an insiders club, a tool for special interests that kidnaps, steals and generally oppresses the governed while its apologists claim it is for our own good.

Fundamentally, constitutional principles would "take us back" to the late 1700s.

Fundamentally, the logical result of left-wing big state principles would take us back far earlier.

Hence, liberals' portrayal of conservatism being relative to the dark ages only succeeds in illustrating the ignorance of the person making the portrayal.

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  • maxmom
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    What passes for conservatism these days looks more like an exclusive right wing, religious party.

  • orr
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    You have to prove it ever existed, before one could even argue that it was related to any other historic "age"...

    But seeing as your avatar has the words "End the Fed" in it, I'll give you a thinker:

    The richest man in 1913 was Rockefeller. He was worth an inflation-adjusted $500 billion.

    The average income was an inflation-adjusted $15,000.

    Today the richest U.S citizen is Gates, at an estimated $59 billion.

    The average income is $45,000.

    Now, you tell me, does having a class or enormously rich political and financial leaders, and an underclass of desperately poor working for them sound closer to the dark ages, to you?

  • 9 years ago

    Federal Government for ever

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  • 9 years ago

    You know current thinking about the dark ages is that it was a lot more intellectually reformist than those Christian scholars of the time wrote about, right?

    Most of the modern states in western Europe trace their histories back to those times, so people must have been doing SOMETHING right.

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