Liberal Principles #3
Oct. 24th, 2006 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythI think this is the last of the foundation principles of liberalism. There might be more, but I think most things can fit under the four I've listed, including this one.
And this last one is the Future. Liberals look from the present toward the future, conservatives look from the present back to the past. Not exclusively for either side, but their dominant perspective is skewed that way.
There's a lot of ideas that come from this perspective, but I'll explore those later, and how the principles interact to try and figure out what the most important issues and ideas are to liberalism, at least my liberalism.
And if there's anything anybody thinks I missed, feel free to comment.
Okay, I totally missed one of the most important ones, which is liberals tend to be more about working together, while conservatives are more "You're on your own!" Though I think that might also come out of a combination of the other things, but with enough tortured logic you can justify anything as the "foundation". Still, that makes 5.
And this last one is the Future. Liberals look from the present toward the future, conservatives look from the present back to the past. Not exclusively for either side, but their dominant perspective is skewed that way.
There's a lot of ideas that come from this perspective, but I'll explore those later, and how the principles interact to try and figure out what the most important issues and ideas are to liberalism, at least my liberalism.
And if there's anything anybody thinks I missed, feel free to comment.
Okay, I totally missed one of the most important ones, which is liberals tend to be more about working together, while conservatives are more "You're on your own!" Though I think that might also come out of a combination of the other things, but with enough tortured logic you can justify anything as the "foundation". Still, that makes 5.
