Opus 2025-393: The Volkswagen and the Corvette

Conservatives are not backward looking in the sense of wanting to go there.  They are backward looking in the sense of understanding the lessons that have been learned and using that knowledge to move into the future.

Liberals look into the future with stars in their eyes and think that because they want something it will happen.  They ignore the lessons of the past.  They are the peak evolution, not a dead branch.

Picture a race between a Volkswagen and a Corvette.  Both are given 20 gallons of gasoline which is enough to reach the finish line.  Both are shown the road that they are to follow.  Both have the destination.  The Volkswagen starts off driving at 55 miles an hour because he knows that at 55 miles an hour he gets two more miles to the gallon of gasoline.  The Corvette puts his pedal to the metal , lays a bunch of rubber on the road and disappears into the distance in a cloud of smoke.

The Volkswagen eventually drives past the Corvette sitting at the side of the road out of gas.  This isn’t the hare taking a nap but totally out of gas.  That assumes that the Corvette didn’t crash before it ran out of gas or have a gasket blow.  If the goal is to reach a productive and secure future, and the conservative is the one who will arrive.  At that point part of his looking back to the past will involve the repeated failures of the Corvette to ever get close to winning.  If life were a 100 yard dash the Corvette would always win, but life tends to be a marathon.

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