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I am talking about Teddy. He busted monopolies in order to improve competition. Most of today's media conservatives probably would have sided with the monopolies. I like competitive free markets. On foreign policy Teddy was an unapologetic imperialist. On Economics I don't think Teddy Roosevelt can be made to fit on today's version of the left to right political number line.
That was the entire Republican Party back then. Generally economic liberals: Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft. All pro-labor, anti-trust, anti-corporation. As regards foreign policy and government structure and function, they were all conservatives.
Like most Conservatives today Teddy was free trade. A founding principle of conservatives No, a Free Trader. Yes he can, solid conservative, He was for self reliance, and personnel responsibility, he stood for the Individual taking care of their own needs, retirements to health care.
Teddy also was for making sure our natural resources lasted as long as possible something the modern right wing is against.
Just proves that he was a conservative and conservationist, like most conservatives. Now, what I ask was for proof that the liberals are better at conservation than conservative, and that their Ideas work better than the Conservative system of preservation. People like Russell E. Train, Aldo Leopold, who like Teddy Rooevelt were hunters and conservationist, who utilized the resources while making sure they were renewed, cutting trees and planting new, culling the herds but allowing for the growth of the Herd. Peole who understood that resources are to be used, not sequestered in a manner that does no one any good.
Teddy Roosevelt was also "the Trust Buster" who broke up corporations for being too powerful, and called "the thundering prophet of the welfare state." He was a big proponent of New York's regulation of housing to eliminate the sort of squalor documented by his good friend Jakob Riis in the seminal work "How the Other Half Lives" (Riis later went on to write the first authorized biography of TR). The Pure Food and Drug Act give the federal government sweeping power over the nation's food supply. He also greatly expanded the number of blacks in government appointing them to low level federal positions ahead of white counterparts whose names had been on the rolls waiting for years in some cases. That move that was savagely curtailed by the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson. The modern understanding of liberal v. conservative are lost on that era. Our politics and theirs have moved quite a bit. Strangely, I can't thgink of any issues where the two parties found a stable consensus, only ones where they've switched positions.
I wish you were my doctor. " are you sure it's cancer doc. and my right nut needs to come off?" " Yes imbecile, looks malignant to me( I looked at your wallet..cough, I mean file) and it's clear to me you've been whacking off too much and the only course of action left ( ouch, it even hurts to say it) is to take you down to the hospital's right wing for what's known amongst us doctoring folk as a right wing nutjob!"
you do realise that if we had 4 arms we probably wouldnt have a decimal system? we would count in groups of 20
