Let's give private charities a chance to solve drug and alcohol problems. Let's try to build a system to stop nuclear missiles. It is a tribute to the morbid nature of modern liberalism that there is not a smidgen of light from the left. Yes, they were. But only the narrowest, Marxist ideologue can predict exactly how people will interact when things start to change.
Conservatives look at what actually happens, and judge accordingly.
We don't bemoan expenditures to innoculate children from disease, provide reasonable public education, build highways, inspect meat, or provide sensible financial protection from unavoidable hardships. These Democrats know exactly what will fail before it is even tried. That wins political battles, and that wins policy wars. And we are winning. Bruce Walker is a frequent contributor to The Pragmatist and The Common Conservative.