syzygy, there are as many threats of those kinds on the right as on the left. And I knew galilelo wasn't a political liberal. It was an example with if only in steriotype, pictures what I was saying
i'm not conducting a bean counter here, counting threats. the nature of these threats (and excesses) are in fact part of the innate differences between the two.
has there ever been a 'liberal revolution' that did not, in the end, exceed its own limits of change and not produce degeneracy ?
remember, these revoltuioanry forces had to overcome the same conservative elements you consider to be the essence of wrong.
yet, the french revolution replaced one despot with another. same in russia, vietnam, cambodia, china, and every eastern
european country. if the agitators in france, america (remember president mckinley was assassinated by an anarchist in
1902), great britain, greece, and few other spots had not been defeated, there would have been more failures at greater
cost to contend with today.
even liberal reform programs that fight the good fight on social issues have exceeded their original noble goals and slid into
horrible excesses that have created problems worse than the original evil.
one major example: roosevelt's new deal. it gave birth to the welfare industry whose righteousness we are still struggling to overcome.