Chesterton once said, \u201cThe whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types \u2014 the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n
In our day, it is Communist-imitating \u201cconservatives\u201d who radically broke with tradition to make torture their core value in their cowardice. And now it is timid Progressives like Obama, who has plenty of blood on his hands with his own unilateral murder policies<\/p>\n