“Liberal” versus “conservative” is one more example of the kind of either/or and black/white Western thinking that has gotten us in trouble so often. It has made Congress ineffective, split voters by party and lifted ideology over the common sense needs of people.
What would happen if we began to think in terms, not of political ideology, but in terms of values like decency, responsibility, compassion and the common good? How would we then deal with the issue of immigrants and their children? Or the issue of environmental safety? Or the issue of gun control?
I believe that values are a more reliable guide to quality of life than ideologies are. But we seem blinded to this in the darkness of the Trump universe.
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