re: #204 b_sharp

I’m starting to see images of a caveman grunting ‘conservatism good, liberalism bad’ in my head when I read certain comments.

With zero acknowledgement that “liberalism” is what freed the slaves and ended Jim Crow, let women go to college and law school, why 9-year-olds don’t work in the coal mines, why we can breathe the air and drink the water and there’s such a thing as “weekends”, it was liberalism that built the trans-continental railroad and Panama Canal and interstate highways and established the National Parks, there hasn’t been a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in this country for more than a century, we put men on the moon, etc etc etc.

“Conservatives” resisted every one of those things.