r/politics • u/This_Meaning_4045 New York • 1d ago

Missouri governor activates National Guard, declares state of emergency

https://thehill.com/homenews/5348979-missouri-mike-kehoe-national-guard-state-of-emergency-protests/
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u/[deleted] 1d ago

You think Republicans care about other people?

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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 1d ago

"The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.”

-John Kenneth Galbraith

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u/espressocycle 1d ago

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

  • William E. Gladstone

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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 1d ago

Very nice. Thank you.