Why Liberals Need A Saner Conservatism

Scott Payne responds to a few of my posts and argues that those on the left have reason to invest in a better conservative party:

The fact of the matter is that while we might be talking about the “future of conservatism,” that does not mean that we are entertaining the notion that conservatism will actually blink out of existence. What we’re really talking about is what kind of future American conservatism will realize, and the future of American liberalism is fundamentally tied to that of American conservatism.

Each ideology is, whether thy choose to acknowledge it or not, one side to a very complicated and intricate coin. They don’t really survive without one another because each, left to its own devices, as Sullivan, again, pointed out in his book, will invariably sow the seeds of its own destruction. Each ideology, as vociferously as they denounce one another, provides a vital balancing point to the other. It is the back and forth between the two and the ineffable cross-pollination that their waxing and waning enables, that provides the foundations upon which America is able to flourish.

Conor chimes in with his two cents.