In today's StarTribune paper, editorialist d.j. tice defined conservatives as against change. That may true of classical conservatives, but it is not true of my brand of conservatism.
Change is not only inevitable but is desirable, but it must be the right kind of change. We must not glorify change for its own sake. Change is likely, inherently more good than bad, and the lack of change likely, inherently is more bad than good. Having premised that, change needs to be the right kind, headed in the right direction.
Obama promises us that 2014 will be a year of action but his ambition to advance unilaterally his Progressive agenda through executive orders is change that hastens the decline and death of American into a soft socialist dictatorship.
The conservative change that I envision is setting up a constitutional republic with untrammeled capitalism and maximum individual liberty. Government should be small, local and decentralized. Institutions of all kinds should be disbanded or greatly reduced in size.
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