You are right, I think the conservative philosophy is primitive
It seems your understanding of it is primitive.
Even if you think that people are strongly wrong that doesn't mean they are stupid or evil. Obviously I don't expect you to embrace political philosophies and ideas, and ideas about economics etc. that you disagree with. But there are quite intelligent and well meaning people with all sorts of political views, even seriously messed up and dangerous ideas like communism. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't oppose people pushing ideas you think are seriously wrong, but your tendency to call people like Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman idiots and nutcases who have no heart and no soul, shows a serious lack of understanding of their ideas and their public persona (I've never gotten to know them personally and I doubt you have, so the public persona is all we have to go by).
Also even if your statements along those lines were correct (and they are very far from it), it still wouldn't be a good idea to argue that way. Engage the ideas, not the person. Esp. when all you have to go by about the person is their ideas.
and seldom correct.
That I'm not going to argue. Sure I disagree, but everyone's entitled to their opinion, and in any case its not specific about anything
PS take a major issue where you think the conservatives are correct and the liberals are wrong.
OK, here's where your trying to get specific.
Conservatives (depending on exactly how you define the group, this wouldn't for example apply to Trump's views on trade), at least lean towards the idea that economies function better when you move further away from central planning and more towards people being able to make their own economic decisions. |
