When you ask a conservative what his idea of a perfect society is, he’ll describe something roughly similar to what we have now. Maybe slightly different tax rates and immigration policies.

But if you ask a liberal, you’ll probably get some fantastic fairytale utopia that could never exist in a million years (“…and then we’ll force all the corporate bosses to submit to brain surgery so they stop being greedy! Yeah! And then we’ll disband the police force and instead promote a culture that encourages peace and mutual respect! And free weed! 420 FO’ LIFE!”)

Something I’m really starting to wake up to is that the left is awesome at finding solutions to problems…just so long as you don’t care that their solutions will usually never be practical. In the last century we’ve seen communism and anarchism, two failed liberal experiments, and those were the two that people actually tried to implement! Liberals shoot holes all over conservative ideologies, but guess what? At the end of the day, those ideologies work. They might not work perfectly, but they work. I’ll take a flawed but workable model over a perfect but unworkable model any time.

Both sides of the political spectrum are necessary to balance each other. Liberals move a society forward, conservatives keep society standing still. Left-wing types will scream “WHY DO YOU WANT TO SLOW DOWN PROGRESS?!?!” but the answer is obvious: for the same reason you have breaks on a car. Sure, most of the time you want to be moving forward. But sometimes you need to break your car so it doesn’t go off a cliff.