re: #52 Obdicut

But conservatism doesn’t have to mean ‘not moving forwards’. It was supposed to mean, it traditionally meant ‘not changing for the sake of changing and changing with care’. It’s a modern meaning that it means going back to some mythical past.

For example: I’m in favor of privatizing the entire prison system, though making it heavily regulated, and tying the payments to the prison to recidivism. I think that’s the only way for us to actually get to rehabilitative prisons. I don’t think the government will ever do so on its own.

Is that ‘conservative’ or ‘liberal’ position of mine? My goal is shorter sentences and more people returned to productive work. My means is privatization.

Privatizing prisons inevitably incentivizes getting more people into prisons in order to increase revenue.