What is Conservatism? Does it have to do with party alignments? Is it a problem? Why do so many people speak lowly of it? Who are Conservatives? These are not questions that people ask themselves, they are questions that people blindly answer. Followers of other ideologies truly pretend to grasp what conservatism is all about, even though the education is dismal on the subject.

 By  Leette Eaton- White Every time I hear the term Compassionate Conservative I get a little twitch in the right side of my upper lip that makes me look a bad Elvis impersonator. My first reaction is ‘What’s not compassionate about conservatism?’ But then I realize most folks don’t really get the main ideas behind [...]

 Political parties are always dealing with the tension between those who are the dogmatists and those who are pragmatists. In the 80s and 90s, the Democrats were fighting amongst themselves, with the New Deal dogmatists on the one side and the New Democrat pragmatists on the other. In the end, the pragmatists were able to [...]