Thursday Daily Delawhere [4.2.15]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 2, 2015

Houses on Shallcross Avenue in Wilmington’s Forty Acres neighborhood, the city’s historically Irish section. Photo by xzmattzx.

kavips says:

April 2, 2015 at 7:28 am

Q: What is conservatism?
A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.

Q: What is wrong with conservatism?
A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world.

These ideas are not new. Indeed they were common sense until recently. Nowadays, though, most of the people who call themselves “conservatives” have little notion of what conservatism even is. They have been deceived by one of the great public relations campaigns of human history. Only by exposing this deception will it become possible to revive democracy in the United States. — Phillip Agre 2004
bamboozer says:

April 2, 2015 at 10:51 am

It will take a generational change to move beyond today’s “conservatism”, but notice conservatives have grown far bolder and more radical in the last 15 years. The Bush era will be as unto nothing if the Republicans take the White House and retain the senate and House, worse than that if they appoint the next few supreme court justices. And I agree, the selling of conservatism is one of the great and enduring public relations campaigns in the nations history.
Dorian Gray says:

April 3, 2015 at 11:29 am

And all this inspired by a photo of the north side of Shallcross between Lincoln and Union