HOW MANY MORE AMERICANS MUST CONSERVATISM KILL?

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How do we explain yet another known terrorist threat gone unheeded?

The explanation is simple. For decades our government has been dominated by a conservative ideology that claims to despise big government, abhor regulation and adhere to an unswerving faith in the infinite wisdom of the market. Rick Perlstein dubs this philosophy "E. Coli Conservatism," and in practice it is not only flawed but corrupt: a calculated conservative project intended to gut our regulatory systems in the interest of sheer corporate greed. We eat adulterated food not because we cannot adequately regulate the industry but because to do so would eat into the profits of the corporations our regulators serve.

In the six years since 9/11, food-borne pathogens and toxins have quietly killed ten times the number of Americans who died in the terrorist attacks. How many more Americans must conservatism kill before our leaders embrace a more responsible ideology?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/13/opinion/main3056554.shtml

[tabasco]

1. What exactly does "conservatism" conserve?

Profits for the robber barons is all I can think of.

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2. It's a failed ideology

They want serfdom to go on forever.