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In reply to the discussion: A Minimum-Wage Worker Can't Afford A 2-Bedroom Apartment Anywhere in the US [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)suited to govern modern democratic nations. Actually, I don't believe most are suited to run authoritarian dictatorships and fascist states either without running the ruling class's gravy train into the ground. America's mood has empowered ongoing conservative dominance for the past 40 years now, and we seeing their unfitness in the slow decline of our nation, development and shift of wealth and power to new centimillionaire and billionaire classes, and strong decline in the wellbeing of many millions.
Let's face it. Government of, by and for the people, respect for inherent value and good of most individuals, and equality of all people and inherent rights are liberal concepts. Many moderate conservatives believe in them also.
But they just don't ping with most strong conservatives, who believe equality is a ridiculous and unnatural concept, that people will naturally tend to behave badly if not required to be good, and that it is the people who are unsuited to govern and must be governed.
It's time for this conservative era to end, with another big shift in national mood to liberalism. I suspect we'd be well into it if it weren't for the efforts of ultrawealthy conservatives to keep that from happening.