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WFB Jr. is a good example of why I’m not a conservative. His self described mission was to “stand athwart of history yelling stop.” As a liberal I embrace life embrace change and want fight to define history for the good and virtue. Like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman I do not consider myself a conservative. I have no pretense that I’m a Hayek or a Freidman but I’m fortune to stand on their shoulders. In Hayek assay Why I am not a conservative he talked about the liberal looking forward, based on courage and confidence, on a preparedness to let change run its course even if we can not predict where it will lead.

“This difference between liberalism and conservatism must not be obscured by the fact that in the United States it is still possible to defend individual liberty by defending long-established institutions. To the liberal they are valuable not mainly because they are long established or because they are American but because they correspond to the ideals which he cherishes.”

“The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.” Hayek

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