Liberals and Conservatives

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“You know, when the battery fires?” asked the American. “Those two guys off to the side with their arms in the air? What are they doing?”

“They’re holding the horses,” gasped the old soldier.

This is how liberals tend to think about conservatives–doing things they way they’ve always been done, for no good reason other than precedent.

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Two of your executives come to see you with a proposal. One is a chemical engineer, the other an MBA. They have a new, very elaborate process model in which they have very high confidence, and a proposal for optimizing the plant based on this model. If you will just give approval for all the setpoints to be simultaneously reset to new values, then the plant will increase its production by 75%–as verified by the chemical engineer’s process model–and will make you lots and lots of money–as verified by the MBA’s spreadsheets.

This is how conservatives tend to think about liberals–implementing major social change based on untested theories and with no fallback when things don’t work out as planned.